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Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.
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Not all Americans are living the American dream by a long shot. Many can't even imagine it. There are impoverished Americans, the poor and the homeless, the hungry and the hopeless, many unable to read and write. There are Americans gone astray, the kids dragged down by drugs, the shattered families, the teenage mothers struggling to cope. Then there are Americans uneasy, troubled and bewildered by the dizzying pace of change.
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Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.
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I know this about the American people: We welcome competition. We'll match our ingenuity, our energy, our experience and technology, our spirit and enterprise against anyone.
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But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.
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The Cold War began with the division of Europe. It can only end when Europe is whole.
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Learning is good in and of itself...the mothers of the Jewish ghettoes of the east would pour honey on a book so the children would know that learning is sweet. And the parents who settled hungry Kansas would take their children in from the fields when a teacher came.
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Be strong,be kind,be generous of spirit, be understanding and let people know how grateful you are.Dont get even.Comfort the ones i've hurt and let down.Say your prayers and ask for Gods understanding and strength.Finish with a smile and some gustoand do what's' right and finish strong.
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The liberation of Kuwait has begun. In conjunction with the forces of our coalition partners, the United States has moved under the code name Operation Desert Storm to enforce the mandates of the United Nations Security Council.
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We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.
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I believe with all my heart that one cannot be America's president without a belief in God, without the strength that your faith gives you.
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We sue each other too much and care for each other too little.
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There are singular moments in history, dates that divide all that goes before from all that comes after.
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Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.
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Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.
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I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the decade beginning January 1, 1990, as the Decade of the Brain. I call upon all public officials and the people of the United States to observe that decade with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.
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The potential of this nation is as boundless as the imagination and drive of the American people.... Quality management is not just a step. It must be a new style of working. Even a new style of thinking. The dedication to quality and excellence is more than good business; it's a way of life.
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Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.
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Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely. everyone who changes his or her life because of crime. have been denied a basic civil right.
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Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong.
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No president can easily commit our sons and daughters to war.
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Our stewardship of the Earth is brief. We owe it to those who follow to keep that in perspective, to be responsible passengers along the way.
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Our nation is the enduring dream of every immigrant who ever set foot on these shores, and the millions still struggling to be free. This nation, this idea called America, was and always will be a new world -- our new world.
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To those men and women in business, remember the ultimate end of your work: to make a better product, to create better lives. I ask you to plan for the longer term and avoid that temptation of quick and easy paper profits.
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Draconian limits on economic growth and on the use of the automobile should not be necessary in order to give Americans clean air at levels they are willing to pay for, but it will require significant Federal, State, and local leadership and innovative approaches from government and industry.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
June 12, 1924
Died:
November 30, 2018
(aged 94)
Bio:
George Herbert Walker Bush was an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States, and the 43rd Vice President of the United States.
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