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It's a volatile time.
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Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.
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My wife is not a public person. She is uncomfortable with the limelight, which is why I love her. I don't want a political wife - I want someone who, when I get home, I can have a normal life with.
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Immigrants are more fertile.
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And we should be a welcoming nation. Our identity is not based on race or ethnicity, it's based on a set of shared values. That's American citizenship.
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There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.
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When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate. They create disruption for a while that leads them to even greater heights when the economy turns around.
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It's been painful to see the people that you love be attacked when you know it's not fair or true.
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The Common Core State Standards are more rigorous standards than the great majority of states had in place previously.
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You know, when you run you got to be all in and you take risks of winning and losing.
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A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs.
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You know what? As it relates to my brother, there is one thing I know for sure: he kept us safe.
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People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can, but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.
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Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.
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Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.
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Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.
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Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.
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Please clap.
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There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.
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Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.
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We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.
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I miss being governor.
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Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.
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I'm fairly accessible.