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"Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win."
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"It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered."

"Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists."

"I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves."

"The thing about it is, all those races we lost, we won this race together. We won it as a team."
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"The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It's perfect."
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"If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money."

"Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill."

"As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music."

"There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are."

"I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs."

"The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not."

"We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do."

"We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity."

"The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it."
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