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• The White House admitted that Vice President Biden's endorsement of gay marriage forced him to come out in favor of it. So in a related story millions of Americans are trying to get Biden hooked on pot.

  Conan O'Brien

  Gay, White, House

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• I believe we're all aware that there are people and organizations throughout the world who are bent on destroying America, everything we stand for and inflicting harm on American citizens. It is the obligation of the president of the United States to respond to those. I believe, I must add, that this adminstration for the last seven months has neglected compelling national security threats besides this ... I hope that the president will not confine his activities to just this.

  John McCain

  Believe, Seven Months, Organization

  "A Quick Look At Reactions In Congress". www.cnn.com. August 20, 1998.

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• Fox News reported Thursday that Bill Clinton can't get into any of New York's better golf and country clubs. Not one member has been willing to sponsor him. So it's official, he really is America's first black president.

  Argus Hamilton

  Country, New York, Golf

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• Chinese president Jiang Zemin met with former Bill Clinton in Hong Kong Wednesday. What a contrast. One is a ruthless communist who gains popularity by damaging the United States, while the other guy runs China.

  Argus Hamilton

  Running, Guy, Chinese

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• Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela announced Tuesday he will begin writing his autobiography. He spent 25 years in prison before being elected to public office. In America, we do it the other way around.

  Argus Hamilton

  Writing, Years, America

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• Hillary Clinton flew with President Bush to New York City on Tuesday. She was amazed at the changes aboard Air Force One. For eight years she believed that flight attendants couldn't wear clothes because it made the plane too heavy.

  Argus Hamilton

  New York, Eight, Air

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• Hillary Clinton will travel to Vietnam with the president this Friday. It's a fact that at the height of the war in 1971, she tried to enlist in the Marines, but they turned her down. Apparently we weren't that mad at the Viet Cong.

  Argus Hamilton

  Friday, War, Marine

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• It's interesting how Obama's adorers in the press keep comparing him to Lincoln and Reagan. Apparently they can't think of a Democrat president worthy of being compared to.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Interesting, Compare

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• I think President Obama is going to be a one-term president.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, President Obama, Term

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• A large portion of American citizens, especially people of color, have lost confidence in our criminal justice system. Many have called for appointing special prosecutors when a police officer kills or injures a civilian. If you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our broken justice system?

  Russell Simmons

  Color, Broken, Justice

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• I feel the president is ignoring the opinion of many in the U.S. and alienating the rest of the world. My comments were made in frustration, and one of the privileges of being an American is you are free to voice your own point of view.

  Natalie Maines

  Frustration, Views, Voice

  "Dixie Chicks Slammed For Bush Gibe". www.cbsnews.com. March 15, 2003.

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• The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms of freedom and justice. But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Taken, America, Evil

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.110, Beacon Press

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• It is perhaps my greatest hope, Mr. President, that some day we'll consider tax and spending measures with no one else in mind but future generations of American taxpayers. We're tying a millstone of debt around their necks, and it is a grave mistake.

  John McCain

  Mistake, Mind, Generations

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• I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.

  John McCain

  Past, Vices, Libertarian

  "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.nbcnews.com. July 8, 2004.

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• My preference would be to remain in the Senate, ... But you can't say I would refuse to serve in one of those (Cabinet) capacities. It's not the same as vice president.

  John McCain

  Vices, Would Be, Cabinets

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• The question is not whether you would like to be president or not. The question is: Do you think you can win and do you want to run? And none of those are clear to me.

  John McCain

  Running, Winning, Thinking

  "McCain disputes Cheney on Iraq". www.cnn.com. June 20, 2005.

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• I want to tell the vice president and everybody else that when I'm president there will be a controlling legal authority.

  John McCain

  Vices, Want, Authority

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• Arizona may be the only state in America where mothers don't tell their children that someday, they can grow up and be president of the United States.

  John McCain

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  John McCain at Atlantic Council Awards Dinner, www.atlanticcouncil.org. April 29, 2010.

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• Now that we have the line-item veto there is no excuse for Congress to put pork in and no reason for the president not to line-item veto it out.

  John McCain

  Pork, Lines, No Excuses

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• Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.

  Dick Cavett

  Gun, Trying, Want

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.189, Henry Holt and Company

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• Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda - and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.

  John Irving

  Presidential, Agendas, Blind

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  America, United States, Vote

  "Fictional character: Abraham Lincoln". "Lincoln", 2012.

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• Don't worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.

  Barbara Walters

  Heart, Worry, Matter

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• I'm not running for president because I think I'm blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save our country in its hour of need. My country saved me. My country saved me, and I cannot forget it. And I will fight for her for as long as I draw breath, so help me God.

  John McCain

  Running, Country, Blessed

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 4 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• The President? Hmmm, I wonder who that might be? Could it be, perhaps, the sitting two-term incumbent of the same party holding its convention? The person whose economic and military policies shape the environment the next president will deal with? As best I can tell, in the tens of thousands of words making up the combined remarks of John McCain, Sarah Palin, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, and Lindsay Graham, the Name That Must Not Be Uttered appeared exactly once.

  James Fallows

  Military, Party, Names

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