Democracy
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- [Trump and Putin] that’s a match made in heaven.
- There are very clear distinctions. He can say whatever he wants about me. Let the voters judge that. But I am not going to let him or any of the other Republicans rip away the progress that we have. It has been too hard fought for. And I am going to stand up and make it clear there is a huge difference between us.
- Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked.
- Neighborhoods change, and people tend to vote for people who look like them.
- Only government that sends power back to the people can make American confident again.
- American leadership is put to the test.
- But I think if we're ever going to really tackle the problems posed by Jihadi extreme terrorism, we need to understand it and realize that it has antecedents to what happened in Iraq, and we have to continue to be vigilant about it.
- I was not elected dictator of the House.
- I'm going to be above the president.
- Our founders didn’t want some parliamentary system where if you won the majority you got to do whatever you wanted. They wanted this long, slow process. And so change comes slowly. And obviously too slowly for some.
- We may discover that the gates maintained by our new gatekeepers are narrower than ever.
- The NRA has got people here by the short and curlies.