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" In 1982, I wrote in my diary that life is motion, not joy. If the way you measure success in life is by how much joy it brings you, you're measuring inaccurately. Life is also sadness, defeat, striving. It is many things. "

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" Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is. "

" The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman. "

" In 1980, in 1984, millions of middle-class Democrats became Reagan Democrats, and more of them drifted toward the Republicans with Bush in 1988. "

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" I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised. "

" I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit. "

" Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right. "

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" In this life, you should read everything you can read. Taste everything you can taste. Meet everyone you can meet. Travel everywhere you can travel. Learn everything you can learn. Experience everything you can experience. "

" The biggest aggravation in the Arab world, the biggest reason for their anger toward us and the creation of those suicide terrorists, is Israel and the difficulty with the Palestinian issue. "

" We Democrats still have a dream. We still believe in this nation's future. "

" America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came here with little more than the desire to realize themselves. "

" Every minute brings a new opportunity. Every minute brings new growth, new experiences. "

" I am one who believes that the world goes from the slime to the sublime. And you can take Darwin and all your philosophers and all your ontologists, and that's the direction. "

" There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community. "

" My favorite thought about Abraham Lincoln is he believed in two things: loving one another and working together to make this world better. "

" There are only two rules for being successful: one, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it. "

" The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head. "

" David Robinson chose to stay at Navy. He talked about commitment, loyalty and values. I wonder how many of us would choose these virtues rather than the chance of becoming a millionaire, especially if you were a college sophomore when you had to make that choice. "

" I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner. "

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" If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly. "

" Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights. "

" The beauty of America is that I don't have to deny my past to affirm my present. No one does. We can love this nation like a parent and still embrace our ancestral home like cherished grandparents. "