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There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
Barbara Jordan
People
Law
Decision
National
Community
President
States
Must
No Law
Individuals
Executive
National Community
American
Veto
Order
Form
American People
Require
Who
United
United States
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
Barry Goldwater
War
Made
Month
Could
Like
Look
North
Ended
North Vietnam
Mud
Vietnam
The Philippines has vast minerals that are still untapped. It has one of the world's largest deposits of gold, nickel, copper and chromite. Through responsible mining, we intend to generate more revenues from the extraction of these resources.
Benigno Aquino III
World
Philippines
Extraction
Resources
Minerals
Mining
Responsible
More
Vast
Through
Generate
Untapped
Revenues
Still
Intend
Gold
Nickel
Largest
Copper
The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
Benito Mussolini
Citizen
Soldier
Inseparable
Function
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
Benito Mussolini
War
Alone
Courage
People
Highest
Nobility
Tension
Make
Up
Human
Energies
Stamp
Who
Brings
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin Franklin
People
Clothes
Other
Ruin
Furniture
Eye
Neither
Would
Fine
Blind
Houses
Were
Want
Us
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Benjamin Franklin
Life
First
Beginning
Faults
Correcting
Objection
Only
Advantage
Over
Edition
Go
End
Same
Authors
Should
Second
He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.
Benjamin Franklin
Man
Wife
Complete
He
Got
I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
Benjamin Franklin
Old
Mind
Guess
Being
Much
Fat
Industry need not wish.
Benjamin Franklin
Wish
Industry
Need
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
Benjamin Franklin
He
Mistaken
Much
Speaks
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
Benjamin Franklin
Time
Good
Year
Worst
Habit
Discarded
Make
Vicious
Might
Us
Each
Each Year
Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.
Benjamin Franklin
Money
Those
Easter
Owe
Short
Lent
Paid
Who
My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
Benjamin Franklin
Service
Me
Age
Father
Church
Brothers
Put
Sons
Devote
Trades
Were
His
Years
Intending
Eight
Different
Elder
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
Benjamin Franklin
War
Later
Bill
Paid
Wars
Wartime
The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
Bernie Sanders
Time
Democracy
History
Legal
People
Nation
Our
Say
Has-Been
Abolish
Forced
Another
Least
Were
Been
Years
Discrimination
American
The History Of
African
Endure
After
Held
Descent
Founded
Bondage
Slavery
In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.
Bernie Sanders
Political Campaign
Rights
Money
Political
First
Spend
Corporation
First Amendment
First Amendment Rights
Without
Disclosure
Does
Campaign
Amendment
Amendment Rights
Person
As Much Money
Wants
Much
View
I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats.
Bernie Sanders
Independent
Democrat
Democrats
Caucus
Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export.
Bernie Sanders
Fight
Free
Other
Our
Jobs
Must
Only
Free Trade
Countries
Disastrous
Trade
Trade Agreements
Wage
Mexico
End
American
Unfettered
Rewrite
China
Low
Products
Export
Agreements
Fundamentally
Number
We will be judged. There will be an accounting; there will be a reckoning sooner or later. It will either come from ourselves and our own conscience, or it will come from our kids when they ask that inconvenient question: 'What were you doing when they turned those kids back from the border?'
Beto O'Rourke
You
Will
Own
Back
Our
Later
Reckoning
Those
Kids
Ourselves
Border
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
Come
Judged
Doing
Were
Question
Accounting
Either
Turned
Ask
Conscience
Inconvenient
That's the primary mission of ours: to protect the border, enhance the border, and capitalize on what the border has to offer. It's the source of jobs, source of positive immigration stories.
Beto O'Rourke
Positive
Immigration
Ours
Jobs
Border
Primary
Mission
Protect
Source
Offer
Stories
Capitalize
Enhance
I'm for the DREAM Act. It makes so much sense. Following the implementation of the DREAM Act, we'll have a case study we can point to where we can say that we provided a path to citizenship or legal involvement in the community for these young immigrants, and the sky didn't fall.
Beto O'Rourke
Legal
Path
Sky
Fall
Young
Sense
Community
Say
Immigrants
Dream
Citizenship
Following
Case
Point
Study
Implementation
Involvement
Makes
Provided
Where
Much
Act
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
Bill Bradley
Wisdom
Saying
Imagination
We Cannot
Enables
Escape
Reply
Just
Common
Predictable
Cannot
Soar
Us
Watch
The freedoms and prosperity we enjoy in America are thanks to the brave men and women who have served in our armed forces.
Bill Foster
Women
Prosperity
Men
Men And Women
Thanks
Enjoy
Our
Freedoms
Armed
Armed Forces
Forces
America
Brave
Brave Men
Who
Served
We owe these heroes a great deal - it is our solemn responsibility to ensure that all veterans receive the care and respect they have earned.
Bill Foster
Great
Respect
Veterans
Care
Heroes
Great Deal
Responsibility
Earned
Our
Solemn
Ensure
Deal
Owe
Receive
Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.
Bill Owens
Leadership
Words
Results
Ultimate
Actions
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