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“At a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground.”

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The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy.

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Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit.

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Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

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The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found.

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That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has always…

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I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an…

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So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when…

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