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" Islamic extremism may well be the greatest threat to Western values and Western security in the world. "

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" I clearly have done things that were wrong. I've clearly had to seek God's forgiveness. "

" I have a sense of being at peace. I understand when you give the sign of peace, and when the priest says, 'Peace be with you,' in a way I never did 10 or 15 years ago. I have a deep personal sense of what that means. "

" I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee. "

" If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians? "

" I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office. "

" Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. "

" If we are all endowed by our creator with the right to pursue happiness, that has to apply to the poorest neighborhoods in the poorest counties, and I am prepared to find something that works, that breaks us out of the cycles we have now to find a way for poor children to work and earn honest money. "

" The most important social welfare program in America is a job. "

" People have to render judgment. In my case, I've said upfront openly, I've made mistakes at times. I've had to go to God for forgiveness. I've had to seek reconciliation. But I'm also a 68-year-old grandfather, and I think people have to measure who I am now and whether I'm a person they can trust. "

" Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess. "

" Why not aspire to build a real Jurassic Park? "

" I helped lead the effort to defeat communism in the Congress. "

" Politics and war are remarkably similar situations. "

" Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union. "

" Somehow we must reintegrate the scientific with the popular and reconnect the future to the present. This is less a job for scientists, engineers, bureaucrats, and administrators and more a job for novelists, moviemakers, popularizers, and politicians. "

" What makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed, the pain of a 16-year-old who has been permanently cheated by his school and cannot read. "

" I believe we will elect a new President in 2012. "

" Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government. "

" So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine. "

" I read 'Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them,' and I found frightening pieces that related to... my own life. "

" In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignore a court decision. "

" If Trump keeps learning, he could become a big asset. He will shatter the traditional patterns. "

" If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain. "

" This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership to clean things up would be like asking the old Soviet bureaucracy under Brezhnev to reform itself. It ain't going to happen. "

" If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by. "

" You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to go to school. They have no money, no habit of work. What if you paid them in the afternoon to work in the clerical office or as the assistant librarian? "

" One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea. "

" The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country. "

" Nixon had this remarkably effective, deeply intense will to power. Reagan and I have a will to ideas. "

" I've been very clear publicly I'm not a perfect human being, and I've made mistakes in my life, and I've had to apologize to God and to seek reconciliation. "