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 was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
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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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Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.
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Youth deals only in extremes.
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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.
