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" Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy. "

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" What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share. "

" When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment. "

" A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live. "

" Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent. "

" No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams. "

" Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. "

" If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart. "

" Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk. "

" Your children need your presence more than your presents. "

" Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change. "

" Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. "

" We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate. "

" Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote. "

" While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough. "

" Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories. "

" A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever. "

" At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division. "

" Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right. "

" Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things. "

" From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. "

" If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds. "

" Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude. "

" I'm too mature to be angry. "