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" So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win. "
Colin Powell
Believe
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Win
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" When Jerry Springer thinks you've gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far. "
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" I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches. "
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" Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself. "
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" When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility. "
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" Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. "
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" 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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" Trump has no sense of shame. "
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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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" It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation. "
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" Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos. "
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" Experts often possess more data than judgment. "
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Than
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" The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. "
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" Drones are just another weapon, and they turn out to be a very effective weapon that puts no American troops at risk, and I don't see why we shouldn't use them against identified enemy targets. "
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" I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history. "
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Now
Might
" 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. "
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