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    Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.

    If you are for smaller government, then our candidate is for you. We are for better government and smaller government.

    Let us never demonize or give up on those who disagree with us. We don't want to become like the right-wing talk-show hosts, hammering our adversaries into cartoon characters and denying their humanity.

    Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native American, native born, immigrant, straight or gay -- whatever the test ought to be I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow. I'm building that bridge to the 21st century. That ought to be the test.

    Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless


    We must protect our citizens' privacy -- the bulwark of personal liberty, the safeguard of individual creativity.

    We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

    You have to have a positive strategy to make more partners and fewer terrorists. Harry Truman and George Marshall took a little bit of our money to build a world that had more friends and better enemies. Foreign assistance is national security -- not charity. The Marshall Plan saw it that way and we have to do the same today.

    I think that the country needs a debate that's not a screaming match. . . . And I think too many times we have these arguments on these talk shows where they're trying to get ratings by generating heat, when we ought to be trying to generate more light.

    Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

    They should continue to oppose it, and they should make it an issue in the 2006 election, and they should make it an issue in the 2008 election, ... This Week.

    It appears that some school officials, teachers, and parents have assumed that religious expression of any type is either inappropriate or forbidden altogether in public schools however, nothing in the First Amendment converts our public schools into reli

    He's in better health than ever, and these were treats for his nephew, who was in town visiting.

    our government is smaller and less bureaucratic, and has given more authority to the states than our two predecessors who were Republican presidents.

    And one thing a politician knows, running for office, you will never get in trouble as long as you sound like you're the toughest person on the block about crime.

    Our air campaign cannot stop until Mr. Milosevic shows that he is ready to end the nightmare for the people of Kosovo,

    fundamental military and social and police structure intact.

    It is inconceivable that a relationship this large, various, complex and deep, would not occasionally have rough spots and disagreements.

    This should be a happy day for Americans of all ages today because a very good thing has been done for the future.

    I just try to do what the mayor asks. I feel confident airline travel is safe and New York is safe.

    This country is still too dangerous. . . . The crime rate is still too high. The level of violence we put up with is still unacceptable.

    I've reached an age now where it doesn't matter whatever happens to me. I just don't want anyone to die before their time. I've asked you here because I think all of us have an unprecedented power to solve problems, save lives and help people see the future.

    We missed a phenomenal opportunity to launch a global conversation on religious differences. We blew it, by and large.

    will give some guidance to our members of Congress.

    No nation hiding behind closed doors is free, for it is imprisoned by its own fear

    They may walk with a little less spring in their step, and the ranks are growing thinner, but let us never forget, when they were young, these men saved the world.

    I have done nothing but try to finish the story of my life, ... It was hard enough to live it the first time. It's been awful the second time. And I can't go anywhere. So I feel like I got a long prison sentence and I got furloughed tonight to come see you guys and listen to music.

    This has been a time of dramatic transformation, and you have risen to every new challenge.

    Individual character involves honoring and embracing certain core ethical values honesty, respect, responsibility . . . Parents must teach their children from the earliest age the difference between right and wrong. But we must all do our part.

    virtually alone and before UN inspections were completed, with no real urgency, no evidence that there were weapons of mass destruction.

    Now Bill Clinton will go down in history as the president whose veto had to be overridden in order to protect the innocent babies from a brutal, heinous death.

    If ever there was a doubt about the importance of exercising the most fundamental right of citizenship, it was clearly answered by the first presidential election of the 21st century.

    We're going to have to make tough choices and we're going to have to make them together.

    I will relinquish my office -- doing so with a heart filled with gratitude gratitude to the American people for the chance to serve and to leave our country with more opportunity, stronger bonds of community and a more positive impact in the larger world, at the dawn of a new century and a whole new aspect of human affairs.

    People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks . . . of biological and chemical weapons.

    You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I'll give you family values.

    You get different and better questions if the people asking the questions represent America and the world, ... Every one of us filters the world through the prism of our own experience. The press corps should look like the country they are reporting to.

    No government really rooted in limited, parliamentary democracy should have the power to make its citizens fight and kill and die in a war they may oppose, a war which even possibly may be wrong, a war which, in any case, does not involve immediately the

    If they had been in office instead of me, we would have had peace in the Middle East.

    In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . .

    America will not stop standing guard for peace, or freedom or stability in the Middle East and around the world.

    Other countries possess weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. With Saddam, there is one big difference He has used them...The international community had little doubt then, and I have no doubt today, that left unchecked Saddam Hussein will use these terrible weapons again,

    We're now up over 50 percent of the schools (are wired for Internet access), from 3 percent, and over 80 percent of the classrooms, from 14 percent, since 1994.

    I will not stand here and promise you new programs and solutions that we cannot afford. We cannot pay for the programs we have now Which is why today I choose to do your will, by working with the Republican congress to instill 'fiscal common sense' over the people's government.

    Meanwhile, every single day, there are 13 children who die from guns in this country.

    We have come through an election during which unprecedented amounts of money were spent on campaigns at all levels of government. We will introduce legislation which will take the choice of our political leaders from the safe deposit box and return it to the ballot box.

    I don't know how you have a great country that is a beacon of hope for the world for peace and freedom and democracy if you let a third of any group of people wind up going to prison sometime in their lives.

    The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

    One of the things we have to ask is what could we do to give incentives for people to get jobs where they have to relocate, ... A lot of these people will be out of their homes a year or more.

    Globalization is not something we can hold off or turn off . . . it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature -- like wind or water.


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