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Quotes by President
"As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future."
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"How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.'Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face broke into a bashful smile. We have a similar expression in Luo,' he said, 'but actually I must admit that I read this particular expression in a book by Chinua Achebe. The Nigerian writer. I like his books very much. He speaks the truth about Africa's predicament. the Nigerian, the Kenya - it is the same. We share more than divides us."
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"Trees, how many of 'em do we need to look at?"
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"A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties."
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"I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers."
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"I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am."
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"The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off."
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"People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head."
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"At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes."
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"History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion."
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"The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable."
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"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
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"Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public."
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"America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration."
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"My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage."
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"I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress."
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"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man."
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"I believe a stronger sense of empathy would tilt the balance of our current politics in favor of those people who are struggling in this society. After all if they are like us, then their struggles are our own. If we fail to help we diminish ourselves."
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"Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative."
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"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."
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"I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life."
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"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."
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"Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
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"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."
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"I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare."
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"It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you're willing to try."
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"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself."
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"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."
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"People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time."
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"The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead."
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