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“Lincoln, they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart.”

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So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of…

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

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As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very…

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Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit.

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What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will…

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Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

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All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America.…

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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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I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in…

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A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form…

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For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

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Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them.

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Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing…

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