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

" Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff. "

" Get mad, then get over it. "

" It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured. "

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

" Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together. "

" Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. "

" Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation. "

" It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation. "

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

" Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard. "

" If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down and get depressed. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Experts often possess more data than judgment. "

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

" So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win. "

" Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. "

" 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. "

" Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos. "

" 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. "

" In the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far to the right. "