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Quotes by President
"Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive."
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"Our pleasures were simple - they included survival."
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"There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders."
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"Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America."
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"The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil."
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"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion."
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"Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury."
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"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."
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"I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business."
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"Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders."
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"Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves."
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"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."
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"Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations."
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"I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together."
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"Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion."
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"I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them."
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"You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character."
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"We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free."
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"A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits."
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"It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes."
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"Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too."
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"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
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"Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas."
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"I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports."
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"We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power."
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