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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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We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.
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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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The Republicans have kind of painted themselves into a kind of a real demographic corner, if you will.
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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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Progress is a choice.
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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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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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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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Between 1999 and 2009, the people of Baltimore achieved the greatest reduction in crime of America's largest cities.
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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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Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.
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There are some rights that are so fundamental to our society that you'd think the public debate would be closed on them. The right of every American citizen to vote - regardless of age, race, or income level - is one of them.
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Twenty-first century buildings support a 21st century education - because it is difficult to learn or to teach if you are shivering.
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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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So, look, in order to move our country forward, we have to do the things our parents and grandparents did. They believed enough in our country to invest in our country, to create jobs, to make modern investments. And those are the things that we need to get back to with a balanced approach.
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People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.