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"Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people."
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"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people."

"A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed."

"Lead from the front - but don t leave your base behind."

"If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss."

"When the qualities that now confer leadership have become universal, there will no longer be leaders and followers, and democracy will have been realized at last."

"Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain."

"For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship."

"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."

"A wise and frugal Government, which shall retrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned."

"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."
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"When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority."


"People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care."


"Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle."


"We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily."


"I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he handled this budget."


"President Bush has said that the ecomnomy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs."


"It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be."
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