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• I look back to the Great Depression, and what Roosevelt was able to do in very difficult times, to get Social Security through back in the time when it was seen as - well, it wasn't what it is today. It was sort of a last-ditch, if you really need it, you got it, but, today, it's much more a part of your retirement program.

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  Retirement, Needs, Looks

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• Are Democrats for expanding U.S. trade with the world and perhaps creating new jobs, or are they out to protect existing U.S. jobs?

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  Jobs, Creating, New Job

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• Why are some people like Chuck Schumer, who`s probably going to be leader of the Senate, why is he switching from a big city financial center pro-trader to being an anti-trader? Is that because of upstate New York? What`s going on? I can`t figure this out.

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  New York, Cities, People

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• Bill Clinton was for NAFTA. I heard him over in Tokyo he came out all said it was a great bill. Secretary Clinton was for it. She called it the gold standard when she was secretary of state.

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  Gold, Bills, Tokyo

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• I think the Clintons are going to make their decision based on the merits. And their focus, like mine, is on middle class jobs. We`re in a different world than 1994. The China we dealt with in 1994 is a lot different than the China today in 2015.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Class

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• The President Barack Obama said if we get out of this business of trade expansion, we turn it over to the Chinese. This brings us into partnership with 11 other Pacific Rim countries.

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  Country, Chinese, President

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• I truly believe that America`s greatness and billions and billions of dollars of our wealth flows away because China doesn`t treat us fairly.

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  Believe, Greatness, America

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• Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process.

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  Modern, Process, Modern Times

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• I had the good fortune of living in Rome for seven years, from 1994 to 2001. So, I kind of saw firsthand the impact that Pope John Paul II had on people.

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  Impact, Rome, Years

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• I think, internally, we Catholics have known this for a long time. I think we're just thrilled and grateful that the rest of the world now is sharing in the esteem and gratitude that we've had for Pope John Paul II for 26 and a half years.

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  Gratitude, Grateful, Thinking

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• Pope John Paul II spoke with a lot of clarity and consistency. But he always spoke with immense compassion. He's the one who said the best way to love somebody is to tell them the truth. So, he did that well.

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  Compassion, Consistency, Way

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• Pope John Paul II was fascinated by the United States. And I think he was initially surprised at the vigor of the Catholic Church in the United States. Maybe some of the press that we had gotten he found wasn't true. No, I think he suspected the church in the United States. Did he challenge us to some things? Sure, he did. But, no, I always - I think there was a good alliance. There was a good gel there.

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  Thinking, Challenges, Catholic

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• The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to refer to him as John Paul II the Great, in other words, as a saint.

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  Spiritual, Voice, Leader

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• In life, as in death, Pope John Paul II was one of the most visible people on Earth.

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  People, Earth, John Paul Ii

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• Those who saw Pope John Paul II either in person or through the mass media glimpsed a man who millions of Catholics believe may be one of the greatest popes in the history of the church.

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  Believe, Men, Media

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• Over the last 2,000 years, 10,000 saints have been named, among them, 78 popes. At the time of his death, Pope John Paul II had the distinction of naming 482 saints, more than all of his predecessors combined.

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  Years, Lasts, Saint

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• The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.

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  Mother, Lasts, John Paul Ii

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• To become a saint in the Catholic Church, the normal procedure is, beatification, requiring one miracle in your name, then canonization, roughly in five years or longer, to become a saint, a second miracle.

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  Years, Names, Miracle

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• Even if you're not a Catholic, even if you're not a Christian, in fact even if you have no religious faith at all, what people could see in Pope John Paul was a man of true and profound spiritual faith.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

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• The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.

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  Catholic, Champion, Church

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• John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.

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  Kings, Tyrants, Language

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• The holy father John Paul II made a profound impact wherever he went. And, of course, his trip to Boston was one of the earliest ones. But I must say every time that I met the holy father and mentioned Boston, he would immediately say, rain. So, it made quite an impact on him, too.

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  Father, Rain, Impact

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• His [John Paul II] humanity, combined with his extraordinary spiritual authority, was unlike anything I've ever met.

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  Spiritual, Humanity, John Paul Ii

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• It [smoking] was like an aphrodisiac. Actors would say let's have another cigarette on that great scenes, and they'd blow smoke in each other's face.

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  Blow, Actors, Aphrodisiac

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• All Hollywood endings - the bad endings have to be the bad guys to be falling about 50 stories to his death and you have to see his eyeballs as he goes to his doom.

  Chris Matthews

  Fall, Guy, Hollywood

  "Joe Eszterhas". "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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