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"As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord."
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"The time for revolt is now, and the time for revolt is always!"

"Taking consistent action is guaranteed to increase the probability of your success."

"Actions are the flowers of thoughts."

"In order to deliver people we need to have a strategy, to have a plan of deliverance."

"Be bold. Be not fearful. Take actions. Action is real. Results requires interpretation and depends on perception."
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"They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about - not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group."

"Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best."

"I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important."

"I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed."

"I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country."

"I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives."

"We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually."

"Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist."
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