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" The idea the president of the United States was warned that Al-Qaeda was going to attack the United States and did nothing about it - really? Do you think any president of the United States, if he had even an inkling there was going to be an attack, they wouldn't have moved heaven and earth to try to stop it? "

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" There isn't a doubt that Iran constitutes the single most important single-country strategic challenge to the United States and to the kind of Middle East that we want to see. "

" We will continue to work together in our common fight against terror. "

" If you love Russia, you have to love Godunov. "

" People have the right to protest - that's what democracy is all about. I have no problem with people exercising their democratic rights. "

" We are not race blind. Of course we still have racial tensions in this country. But the United States of America has made enormous progress in race relations, and it is still the best place on Earth to be a minority. "

" What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday. "

" The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. "

" People are tired of being kept from the dignity that allows them to make their own choices. "

" I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics. "

" Great powers can't get tired, because the international order is not self-governing. "

" My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. "

" One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us. "

" It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991. "

" I don't see myself in any way in elective office. "

" We were spending American blood and treasure to liberate the people of Afghanistan from one of the most brutal regimes on the face of the earth. That we would not use that moment to press for women's rights seems to me unthinkable. "

" I remember, when I was 6 years old, we were having an event at school where different dolls were on display. I said that the tallest doll needed to be on the end, and my little friend said to me, 'Oh, you're just so bossy.' I remember thinking that wasn't a good thing. But I kept insisting the doll had to be on the end anyway. "

" I believe that while race-neutral means are preferable, it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body. "

" There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal. "

" I wish someone had put a golf club in my hands, not skates on my feet. It is a really great game for business. It's a great game for making connections. "

" I will never forget the bright September day, standing at my desk in the White House, when my young assistant said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center - and then a second one - and a third, the Pentagon. "

" When I talk to students - and I still think of myself more than anything as a kind of professor on leave - they say, 'Well, how do I get to do what you do?'... And I say, 'Well, you have to start out by being a failed piano major.' And my point to them is don't try to have a 10-year plan. Find the next thing that interests you and follow that. "

" We can have a new vision, one even greater than the system they gave us after World War II. Everyone can pursue happiness and freedom and peace. "

" I'm a very happy university professor... the best thing about being a university professor is that you see young people as they're being shaped and molded toward their own future, and you have a chance to be a part of that. "

" Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had. "

" What the United States has done is to be open to people who are fleeing tyranny, who are fleeing danger, but we have done it in a very careful way that has worked for us. "

" Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. "

" What has always made our country special is that it doesn't matter where you come from; it matters where you're going. Our job is to make certain the pathways are open to both our boys and our girls. "

" There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks. "