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"Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era."
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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."

"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."

"It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system."

"Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments."

"We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes."

"Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of American's who were saying, 'Stop!'"

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"It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us."

"The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world."

"During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians."

"The dream was not to put one black family in the White house, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house."

"One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself."

"Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls."

"The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer."
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