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" Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all. "

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" I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company. "

" A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure. "

" When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done. "

" In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die. "

" Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole. "

" Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead. "

" We certainly want those at the top to do well, but if you base your entire presidency and your entire economic platform on helping them do even better, you're missing what makes the economy tick. Because not everyone has been as fortunate as Mitt Romney, you cannot base your whole approach on a life experience as rarified as his. "

" Every administration has this idea to talk tough to Israel and make nice to the Arabs and the Palestinians, and that's the way to bring about peace. It's counter-productive - it's actually the opposite. "

" On foreign policy, President Obama has kept our nation safe from terrorism and restored our standing in the world. When it comes to one of our closest allies - Israel - President Obama has been resolute. "

" But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere. "

" Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure. "

" I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice. "

" I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it. "

" I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it. "

" In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough. "

" The Tea Party is a rear guard, not a vanguard. "

" If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? "

" When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets. We know Mitt Romney never met a tax haven he didn't like. But his new favorite tax haven is actually not the Cayman Islands - its Paul Ryan's budget. "

" Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love. "

" Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do. "

" The vast majority of the people employed by Wall Street are the secretary who goes in to work on the Long Island Rail Road, who makes fifty, sixty, seventy thousand dollars a year. "

" I want to attract the best people into teaching. "

" We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms. "

" The Tea Party people are ideologues. They are right, and no one can change their minds. There is no reason for compromise. "

" But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class. "

" You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President. "

" I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me. "

" When someone takes a private photo, on a private cell phone, it should remain just that: private. "

" Wall Street excesses helped lead to the Great Recession. "

" When Republicans say, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is reduce rates,' it would be like Democrats saying, 'The first thing you do when you do deficit reduction is provide free Medicare at age 55.' We'd like to do that! But it won't bring the deficit down. That's for sure. "