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Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.
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Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
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Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.
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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.
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I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo;
your time has come and gone. It's time for change in America.
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And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom.
When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have a weapons sweep and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities.
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When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.
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I ask you to join in a re-United States.
We need to empower our people so they can take more responsibility for their own lives in a world that is ever smaller, where everyone counts. We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American.
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It's the economy, stupid.
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I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
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Our generation, like the one before us, must choose.
Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.