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A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.

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It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose th...more

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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of le...more

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America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and...more

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Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns in to universal, rather than religion-specific, values... it requires that t...more

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So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater p...more

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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

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But that’s part of what makes America wonderful, is we always had this nagging dissatisfaction that spurs us on. That’s how we ended up going west, th...more

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We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're g...more

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After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we...more

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No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow l...more

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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

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But when our elected officials and our political campaign become entirely untethered to reason and facts and analysis, when it doesn’t matter what's t...more

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Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That's why we restored diplomatic relations, opened t...more

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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.