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Tonight, after nearly 100 years of talk and frustration, after decades of trying, and a year of sustained effort and debate, the United States Congress finally declared that America’s workers and America's families and America's small businesses deserve the security of knowing that here, in this country, neither illness nor accident should endanger the dreams they’ve worked a lifetime to achieve.

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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated. John Kerry knows this.

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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

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Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most destructive trends of the global economy.

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When I was growing up, basically the only black men on television were criminals or Flip Wilson dressed in drag as a character called Geraldine. But you rarely had black professionals portrayed in the culture.

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We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

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As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of democratic law secured by our forefathers and enshrined in our Constitution. It is a tradition that says all men are created equal under the law and that no one is above it.

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Do we participate in a politics of cynicism, or do we participate in a politics of hope?

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Yes, we can!

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Time of crisis can be great opportunity.

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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually y.

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I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.

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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

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We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

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We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.

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Nobody's suffering more than the Palestinian people from this whole process. And I would like to seeif we could get some movement from Palestinian leadershipwhat I'd like to see is a loosening up of some of the restrictions on providing aid directly to the Palestinian people.

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If I sit down with the leader of Iran,
I will send him a strong message that Israel is our friend, that we will assist in their security and that we don't find nuclear weapons acceptable. That's not going to be a propaganda coup for the president of Iran.

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We are the ones we have been waiting for.

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I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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I did. It's not something that I'm proud of. It was a mistake as a young man, but you know? I mean not going to,
I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point.

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This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.

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But the anger is real,
it is powerful,
and to simply wish it away, to condemn it without understanding its roots, only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races.

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I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

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We've got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. We've got a lot of pent-up anger and bitterness and misunderstanding. This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things.

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John McCain once opposed these tax cuts, he rightly called them unfair and fiscally irresponsible. But now he has done an about face and wants to make them permanent, just like he wants a permanent occupation in Iraq. No matter what the costs, no matter what the consequences,
John McCain seems determined to carry out a third Bush-term. That's an outcome America can't afford. Because of the Bush-McCain policies, our debt has ballooned.

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The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, there's a reaction that's been bred into our experiences that don't go away, and that sometimes comes out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society.

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If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible,
who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time,
who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

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To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn: I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices,
I need your help, and I will be your President, too.

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She was the cornerstone of our family and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength and humility. She was the person who encouraged and allowed us to take chances.

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Mr Ayers is not involved in my campaign. He has never been involved in this campaign. And he will not advise me in the White House.

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You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.

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It's not because John McCain doesn't care. It's because John McCain doesn't get it.

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America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page of the policies of the past.

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I honor, we honor, the service of John McCain, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine.

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Im not denouncing the church, and Im not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. Its not a church worthy of denouncing.

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