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"Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House."
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"The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years."

"There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either."

"You must not make hasty decisions because they make you do what you would not have done normally."

"Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right."

"As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection."

"A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence."

"My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it."

"Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision."

"Within the last three years the amount of classified materials has doubled to 15.6 million decisions to classify documents."
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"Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority."


"As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them."


"It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them."


"The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically."


"It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book."


"It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers."


"The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care."
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