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" 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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" 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. "

" I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history. "

" But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward. "

" Russia isn't going to start a war. They can't afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is. "

" Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families. "

" Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself. "

" What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can't get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently. "

" I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters. "

" The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world. "

" I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them. "

" Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must. "

" 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. "

" The Army will take its lessons learned. They're excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong. "

" The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort. "

" 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. "

" We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us. "

" It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?' "

" Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it. "

" Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it. "

" The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise. "

" Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah. "

" 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. "

" I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community. "

" Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign. "

" 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. "

" If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. "

" We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we've had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I've taken. "

" War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. "

" President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he's a liar. "