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"If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce."
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"I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento."

"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring."

"This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do."

"Commitment is a promise to a cause. Being non-committal is a promise to catastrophe."

"Sometimes your pledges become your problems."
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"I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it."

"One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves."

"Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny."

"We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future."

"We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition."

"We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility."

"There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure."

"A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good."
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