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I, too, believe there are natural rights that predate any written political or legal documents; we have these rights merely because we're children of God.
Promises to Keep (2008)
I think you're a damn war criminal and you should be tried as one.
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I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.
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I didn't argue that the war in Vietnam was immoral; it was merely stupid and a horrendous waste of time, money, and lives based on a flawed premise.
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The fabric of our complex society is woven too tightly to permit any part of it to be damaged without damaging the whole.
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I mark the last days of Hubert Humphrey as the high point of bipartisan decency in my career.
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A better man might have handled the situation with more grace than I did. A better man would have been able to separate his personal life from his career.
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No matter how well intended our country is, we cannot expect other nations to trust us as much as we trust ourselves.
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There is a great deal of pressure, in the one particular area at least, to prostitute our ideas, if not our integrity.
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Just because our political heroes were murdered does not mean that the dream does not still live, buried deep in our broken hearts.
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My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up.
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I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.
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The carnage was over, but there was still a bitter taste in my mouth.
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Sleep was like a phantom I was too tired to chase.
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When seagull droppings landed on my head at a campaign event at Bowers Beach two days before Election Day, I chose to read it as a sign of a coming success.
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A convicted felon who had strong family ties, a stake in the community, and an education might get probation, while a man who had few family ties, little stake in the community, and little education might draw a ten-year sentence for the same crime.
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As I pushed through to the podium, I could hear people murmuring under their breath: "There he is... Goddam Biden.... Kill the sonofabitch." And these were my voters- working-class Democrats.
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I had no place to go. It was up or out.
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Given Iraq's strategic location, its large oil reserves, and the suffering of the Iraqi people, we cannot afford to replace a despot with chaos. It would be a tragedy if we removed a tyrant in Iraq only to leave chaos in its wake.
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I learned later that the surgeon who put Dole back together after he was so badly injured in World War II was an Armenian whose family had deep memories of the genocidal campaign the Turks had waged against them.
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