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We need to talk to all the players in the Middle East, not because we agree with them, but because they play a role.
I'm Going To Make Available To Every American The Same Health Care Plan That Senators And Congressmen Give Themselves.
The Russians need to understand that you cannot have peace [in Syria] unless you resolve the question of Sunni buy-in.
There should be a Transatlantic renaissance between the US and Europe based on shared prosperity, security, and values.
If we don't go far enough fast enough, the damage we inflict could take centuries to undo - if it can be undone at all.
War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.
How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?
Israel gets more than half of all the military purchasing assistance that America gives to all the nations in the world.
Great challenges confront our great nation. We seek to meet them by rising to the task, not by defining our country down.
It’s time we framed every question - every issue -- not in terms of what’s in it for ‘me,’ but what’s in it for all of us?
Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, others, knew how to lead. They knew how to ask the American people for the right things.
At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.
You don't value families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter in the service.
What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States.
I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side.
Climate change, if unchecked, is an urgent threat to health, food supplies, biodiversity, and livelihoods across the globe.
I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.
For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans.
A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies
Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.
You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.
We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts.
I still believe Americas destiny is to become a living testament to what free human beings can accomplish by acting in unity.
A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.
America is the one that has led the effort to strengthen NATO and strengthen the front-line states against Russia's pressures.
Folks, Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska. Mitt Romney talks like he's only seen Russia by watching 'Rocky IV.'
Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.
I promise just to serve two terms. Republicans do it differently. They just have the son repeat the father's whole first term.
I went into the Navy because I love the ocean, and I am still privileged to have a place that I can go to that's by the water.
I'm a person who has always believed that you tell people the truth, and they'll make reasonable decisions. Truth is powerful.
I think the United States is still the indispensable force for positive change and for rule of law and for order and structure.
We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before.
The Ukrainian people should not be coerced. Make no mistake: the US stands together with the Ukrainians aspiring for democracy.
President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second.
You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.
My friends, that's trickle-down economics, and I believe every worker in America is tired of being trickled on by George W. Bush
If you don't have two states, you have one state, already the non-Jewish population outnumbers the Jewish population in one state.
George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them.
You just don't, in the 21st century, behave in 19th-century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.
That is what Americans do. We face a challenge - no matter how great - because we know that on the other side there is always hope.
One of the most cherished photographs in my life is a picture of me with John Lennon - who I met back in 1971 at an anti-war rally.
We do not need to divide America over who served and how. I have personally always believed that many served in many different ways.
I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.
I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to play very well, but I enjoyed it.
In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.
If we can't have a serious conversation without politicizing it on cable TV and making it a scoring point for one day, we're in trouble.
We do not need more division. We certainly do not need something as complex and emotional as Vietnam reduced to simple campaign rhetoric.
I came into public life during the 1960s when a whole bunch of us believed in our ability to change the world. And we did a lot of things.
I think that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world.
The race for the White House should be about leadership, and leadership requires that one help heal the wounds of Vietnam, not reopen them.