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I hope we will come together as a nation and do whatever it takes to keep guns away from people who have no business with them.
I'm not running my campaign for the press. I'm running it for voters. I totally respect the press and what the press has to do.
What I don't think we should do is panic, and I don't think we should advocate for ideas and plans that will make things worse.
I think we've got to understand the complexity of the world that we are facing and no place is more so than in the Middle East.
Syria will remain a hotbed of terrorism as long as the civil war, aided and abetted by the Iranians and the Russians, continue.
I think we're all safer when the police respect the communities they're supposed to serve, and the communities respect the law.
Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you feel.
I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder . . . Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.
I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.
Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful
Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families.
Bahrain is moving at one pace, Morocco another, Qatar at another, Kuwait at yet another. And we are there to assist our friends.
What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.
Politics is like sausage being made. It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be.
India has reduced its dependence on Iranian oil. I know their refineries have stopped asking for orders to purchase Iranian oil.
We Democrats believe in an America where no matter who you are or where you come from, you should have an equal shot at success.
'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.
One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.
I mean you've got a conservative and right-winged press presence with really nothing on the other end of the political spectrum.
I'm going to use the White House and every tool at my disposal as your president to make the case that patriotism is profitable.
Don`t believe anyone who says, "I alone can fix it." Americans don`t say, "I alone can fix it." We say, "We`ll fix it together!"
George W. Bush is very popular in Sub-Saharan Africa. Why? Because of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief.
The truth is, through all these years of public service, the 'service' part has always come easier to me than the 'public' part.
There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the world is a mess.
Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.
I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.
Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.
If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn't prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.
I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.
My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
There is no prospect that the United States will say to Israel, 'You do such and such and we'll not support you in your security.
I want to make change, but I've already made change. I will continue to make change. I'm not just running on a promise of change.
The most important thing I have to say to you today is that hair matters. Pay attention to your hair, because everyone else will.
It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.
Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
From my perspective, you get up every day and you get out there and you make your case, and you reach as many people as possible.
One of the best investments we can make is to give our kids the ingredients they need to develop in the first five years of life.
The Russians need to understand. I think they've been treating it as almost a probing, how far would we go, how much would we do.
We should make sure that nobody, no corporation, and no individual can get away without paying his fair share to support America.
When I was secretary of state, we actually increased American exports globally 30 percent. We increased them to China 50 percent.
I want to reassure our allies in Japan and South Korea and elsewhere that we have mutual defense treaties and we will honor them.
Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.
I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.
I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
Our effort to build stability through authoritarians in the Middle East for 60 years had given us neither democracy nor stability.
How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.
Strong growth means increased use of energy at a pace that can strain the capacity to supply what is needed at a reasonable price.