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" It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred. "
Colin Powell
Outcome
Position
Us
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" I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude. "
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" It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured. "
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Who
People
Millions
" Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation. "
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Party
Get
Children
" Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing. "
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Nothing
Organization
" There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening. "
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" You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in. "
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Tea
American
Think
" As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision. "
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Election
Decision
Time
" Experts often possess more data than judgment. "
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Than
More
" Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place. "
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Today
Heart
Hope
" Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign. "
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Economy
Moving
Unemployment
" You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery. "
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Say
Power
You
" You're not just voting for an individual, in my judgment, you're voting for an agenda. You're voting for a platform. You're voting for a political philosophy. "
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Just
Voting
Political
" In the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far to the right. "
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Republican
Last
Party
" Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind? "
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Will
Child
World
" Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that 'shining city on a hill.' And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can't do it on the cheap. "
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Need
Stand
Finding
" Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. "
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Learning
Hard Work
Success
" There's not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with. "
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War
Because
Going
" High-quality early-childhood programs and health coverage have expanded, and the number of mentoring relationships for at-risk youth has risen dramatically. That progress is encouraging, but it's not evenly distributed. "
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Progress
Health
Relationships
" Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move. "
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Move
Progress
Saying
" Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. "
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Positive
Optimism
Perpetual
" It's not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It's who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military. "
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Say
Always
Support
" Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. "
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Great
Solution
Argument
" It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning. "
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Morning
Bad
Better
" We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out. "
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Control
Work
Place
" The idea that putting Americans 'first' requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens. "
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World
Opposite
Retreat
" The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort. "
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Above
Competition
Win
" When Jerry Springer thinks you've gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far. "
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Thinks
Friends
Too
" Indeed, we're strongest when the face of America isn't only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise. "
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Peace
Gun
America
" Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.' "
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Black
Me
You
" In 2008, I spoke out against calling the president a Muslim as if that was a curse. And then in 2012, once again, I was very disturbed about some of the intolerance I was seeing in the party, so I made a statement saying there's a level of intolerance in some parts of the Republican Party. And there was, and I think there still is. "
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Think
Republican
Seeing