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" We have big ideas. I just think that's part of how you campaign. You talk to the American people about big things. "

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" You have to give the press confrontations. When you give them confrontations, you get attention; when you get attention, you can educate. "

" I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor. "

" I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. "

" I'm going to be the nominee. It's very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I'm going to be the nominee. "

" All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree. "

" The most important social welfare program in America is a job. "

" The U.S. cannot be the policeman of the world. When we tried that in Vietnam, they beat us up. "

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" It's been one of the most painful things I've ever been through in my whole life: trying to understand the degree to which behaviors that I thought were totally appropriate were destructive. "

" So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine. "

" Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration? "

" President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history. "

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" What makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed, the pain of a 16-year-old who has been permanently cheated by his school and cannot read. "

" I believe we will elect a new President in 2012. "

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" People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live. "

" In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignore a court decision. "