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Quotes by President
"The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law."
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"We are not the sum of our possessions."
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"I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking."
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"It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another."
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"What Washington needs is adult supervision."
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"I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war."
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"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience."
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"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
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"As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country."
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"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
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"The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation."
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"One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it."
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"We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States."
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"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago."
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"I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system."
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"We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war."
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"I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it."
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"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial."
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"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal."
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"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."
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"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
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"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."
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"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write."
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"Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative."
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