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" We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life. "

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" I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over. "

" We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. "

" Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent. "

" Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world. "

" We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. "

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" It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail. "

" Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread. "

" I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue. "

" We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant. "

" In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us. "

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" Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom. "

" When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights. "

" I think, in many people's minds, the Confederate battle flag is not only a memorial to our ancestors, which is perfectly OK, but also a symbol of white superiority and an inclination for people to believe that even slavery would've been OK. "

" Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease. "

" Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. "

" You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can. "

" Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption. "

" We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. "

" America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. "