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But we should not lose sight of how far we are coming and what a big hole we were left by George W. Bush.
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God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There should be no fear in love.
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Democrats haven't been functioning effectively as a party at the national level.
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If there is a thread that unites all of our work, whether it's in Iowa or whether it's in Maryland or whether it's among our young men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan, I believe that it's the thread of human dignity.
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I believe that the best way to campaign is one-on-one with people.
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The Republicans have kind of painted themselves into a kind of a real demographic corner, if you will.
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We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.
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People are looking for a leader independent of powerful, wealthy special interests that always push to the front of the line.
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I have 15 years of executive experience as a big-city mayor and as a governor.
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The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.
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We are a people of many different religions and many different faiths. The only way forward in a pluralistic society of diverse faiths such as ours is to have laws that protect and respect the freedom of all, equally.
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Progress is a choice.
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Oh, you know what, it's an honor to be mentioned in the company of those that might lead our country forward after President Obama.
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All of us, wherever we happen to stand on the marriage equality issue, can agree that all our children deserve the opportunity to live in a loving, caring, committed, and stable home, protected equally under the law.
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While different states and cities might look to different strategies for protecting public safety, we all can agree on this: we lose too many American lives to gun violence.
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Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.
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Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his predecessor. But President Obama is moving America forward, not back.
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Between 1999 and 2009, the people of Baltimore achieved the greatest reduction in crime of America's largest cities.
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Our story, Maryland's story, is the story of better choices and better results.
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People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.
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We must preserve our planet and grow our economy simultaneously. We cannot become more prosperous without the living systems upon which our prosperity depends.
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The Center for American Progress rates Maryland as the best state in the nation for women. I couldn't agree more.
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We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.
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The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.