Barack Obama Quotes
Generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you. But it doesn't say what the state or federal government must do on your behalf.
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'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.
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I want to say that maybe I've made some wrong decisions, but I'm still an honorable person, and I intend to take care of all of my obligations.
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We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.
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Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it's completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It's all the participants in the network enforcing.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.
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There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
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The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.
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It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
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God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.
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A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
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America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
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I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.
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There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.
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It seems to me that most people are impressed with just three things: how fast you can play, how high you can play, and how loud you can play.
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I don't believe that anyone connected with bullfighting would deny that what happens in the ring has an element of suffering and perhaps cruelty to it. So then it comes back to whether the suffering and cruelty is justified by its place in a tradition that has deep roots in the culture. At present, the view in Catalonia apparently is that it does not.
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Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.
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Generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you. But it doesn't say what the state or federal government must do on your behalf.
