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And I promise you, I wasn't talking about running in the Democratic primary against him in 2012.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Whomever wins this primary is going to go onto Super Tuesday very strongly, and I think it's going to be Bernie Sanders and me going into Super Tuesday.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
His heart is with the teachers, you don't even have to question that. You don't have to worry about that. You don't even have to think about it'cause you know his heart is there.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Time to be an adult. You’re president. You’ve got to do something. Show us what you have.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
What( Trump) said is textbook definition of sexual assault.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Should n’t matter, i ca n’t make excuses for Bill Clinton. But Bill Clinton paid the price. Bill Clinton was impeached, expressed deep sorrow.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I've talked to Bernie, Bernie's going to endorse her, this is going to work out. If you have already noticed, that same polling data you referenced is that Democrats are coalescing even before this occurred.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
There are 1.4 billion Muslims in the world some of the rhetoric I'm hearing sounds designed to radicalize all 1.4 billion.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If we build walls and disrespect our neighbors, we will quickly see all this progress evaporating, replaced by a return of anti-Americanism, a corrosive rift throughout our hemisphere.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Our allies around the world have stood with us - and fought with us - time and again, most recently in Iraq, Afghanistan, and against ISIL.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The United States condemns these acts and condemns the failure to condemn these acts.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The message that is coming out of the United States as a consequence of the presidential campaign about American attitudes, about Mexicans and Mexico generally, but the entire hemisphere and our place in the world, is disturbing.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Some of the rhetoric coming from some of the presidential candidates on the other team are, I think, dangerous, damaging and incredibly ill-advised, but here is what I'm here to tell you: They do not, they do not, they do not represent the view of the vast majority of the American people.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
If someone steps down, I would highly recommend the President not name someone, not send a name up, if (Bush) did send someone up, I would ask the Senate to seriously consider not having a hearing on that nominee.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
In the same statement critics are pointing to today, I urged the Senate and White House to work together to overcome partisan differences to ensure the court functions as the Founding Fathers intended, that remains my position today.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We have to pick somebody, as the President will, who is intellectually competent, is a person of high moral character, is a person who is demonstrated to have an open mind, and is a person who doesn't come with a specific agenda.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The Senate gets to have a say, and so in order to get this done, the President is not going to be able to go out -- nor would it be his instinct anyway -- to pick the most liberal jurist in the nation and put them on the court. There are plenty of judges on high courts already who have had unanimous support of the Republicans.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The Senate gets to have a say, in order to get this done, the president is not going to be able to go out, nor would it be his instinct anyway, to pick the most liberal jurist in the nation and put them on the court.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The president's finally gotten the attention of the Europeans to pony up, since they haven't been doing much of anything.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We've taken back collectively 40 percent of the territory they occupy.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I promise you, after Ramadi, watch what happens now in Raqqa in Syria and what happens in Mosul (Iraq), by end of this year.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The president has finally got the attention of Europeans to pony up because they haven't been doing much of anything.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The best way to win is to run on what we've done and what we stand for, and run on what more we are trying to do. Make it clear what we have to do to finish the agenda, and then contrast that to what they are for and what they oppose. We don't do it nearly enough.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We may be given a gift from the Lord in the presidential race here, i don't know who to root for more -- (Sen. Ted) Cruz or...what's that guy's name? He's having a fundraiser for veterans tonight, I'm told.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We need -- not just in my country, but in other countries -- a more progressive tax code. Not confiscatory policy, not socialism, a tax code, everybody pays proportionally a fair share. This is not meant to penalize everybody.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What I meant was, for the last five years, she's been engaged in foreign policy.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It's relatively new for Hillary to talk about that.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Even if Hillary loses votes -- I've thought this through -- it's a long way to go in the nomination.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Bernie is speaking to a yearning that is deep and real. And he has credibility on it, it's relatively new for Hillary to talk about that.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I never thought she was a prohibitive favorite, i don't think she ever thought she was a prohibitive favorite. So I think it's, you know, everything's sort of coming down to Earth.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I don't think there's any door to open, even if Hillary loses votes -- I've thought this through -- it's a long way to go in the nomination.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I wish sometimes that I was able to be out there making the case why there's such reason for optimism for this country, but I'm able to do that as vice president.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Hillary's focus has been other things up to now, and that's been Bernie's -- no one questions Bernie's authenticity on those issues.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If Bernie Sanders never said he was a democratic socialist, based on what he's saying people wouldn't be calling him a democratic socialist.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If Donald Trump gets the nomination and wins the election, if he's as smart as I think, he's going to regret having said the things he's said and done.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
He said, 'I'll give you the money. Whatever you need, I'll give you the money. Don't, Joe -- promise me. Promise me.' I said, 'I don't think we're going to have to anyway.' He said, 'promise me,'.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Moscow eventually has to end its occupation of Ukraine's sovereign territory, crimea is still sovereign territory of Ukraine.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
As I look around this room and up on the platform, I want to say thank you for letting me crash your family reunion, i'm afraid I've blown his cover. I actually like Dick Cheney.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I believe that we have to end the divisive partisan politics that is ripping this country apart, and I think we can, for the sake of the country, we have to work together.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
While I will not be a candidate, I will not be silent, i intend to speak out clearly and forcefully, to influence as much as I can where we stand as a party and where we need to go as a nation.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We walked out of the room and walked up stairs, i told him my opinion: I thought he should go, but to follow his own instincts.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Mr. President, my suggestion is, 'Don't go,' we have to do two more things to see if he's there,'.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Imagine if I had said, in front of everyone, don't go or go and his decision was a different decision, it undercuts that relationship. So I never, on a difficult issue, never say what I think finally until I go up to the Oval with him alone.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I really respect the members up there and I still have a lot of Republican friends. I don't think my chief enemy is the Republican Party. This is a matter of making things work.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I don't consider Republicans enemies, they're friends.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If you take a look at everyone from the IMF to Standard and Poor's, the greatest concern they have about economic growth is the concentration of wealth.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I'm no Bernie Sanders, he's a great guy by the way. He really is. I'm not a populist. But I'm a realist.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
In the summer of 2007, Iowa State Rep. Lisa Heddens introduced her mentally disabled son to then-Sen. Joe Biden, D-Delaware. ‘Biden didn’t brush him off and was patient with the way he speaks. You know, it is hard to understand him,’ Heddens said of the meeting with her son, Paul, who was then 12 years old. Biden stayed in touch…And that’s the reason Heddens will wait untilBiden makes a decisionon whether he'll run before she makes a decision about who she'll support. State Senator Herman Quirmbach publicly endorsed Biden earlier this week, even though Biden has not yet announced his intention to run.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
This will pass: the Trump stuff, and that stuff that you're hearing on the other team.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
There's one guy absolutely denigrating an entire group of people, appealing to the baser side of human nature, working on this notion of xenophobia in a way that hasn't occurred in a long time, since the Know-Nothing Party back at the end of the 19th century.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Folks, the American people are with us. I know it doesn't feel that way, but I'm telling you, I'm telling you the American people agree with us. this will pass: the Trump stuff, and that stuff that you're hearing on the other team.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I don't want anybody to be down right now about what's going on in the Republican Party, there's one guy absolutely denigrating an entire group of people, appealing to the baser side of human nature, working on this notion of xenophobia in a way that hasn't occurred in a long time, since the Know-Nothing Party back at the end of the 19th century.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
You've just got to get up. And I'd feel like I was letting down Beau... if I didn't just get up.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Under the leadership of President President Barack Obama, we've gone from crisis to recovery and now we are on the verge of a real resurgence in the American economy.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
There's no way to put a timetable on that, the way I read it is it was neither affirmation that Vice President Joe Biden's plunging in on a Shermanesque statement that Vice President Joe Biden'll never run.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I have met virtually every major leader in the world, i know these guys. I know them better than anyone in the administration because I've been hanging around so long.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If I can reach that conclusion that we can do it in a fashion that would still make it viable, I would not hesitate to do it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Unless I can go to my party and the American people and say that I'm able to devote my whole heart and my whole soul to this endeavor, it would not be appropriate, and everybody talks about a lot of other factors: The other people in the race and whether I can raise the money and whether I can get an organization. That's not the factor. The factor is can I do it? Can my family?
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I will be straightforward with you. The most relevant factor in my decision is whether my family and I have the emotional energy to run, the honest to God answer is I just don't know.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
You were there in ways that absolutely blew me away.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I've given this a lot of thought and dealing internally with the family on how we do this, the calculus for this has been evaluating his personal feelings, having just come off Beau's passing.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If I were to announce to run, I have to be able to commit to all of you that I would be able to give it my whole heart and my whole soul, and right now, both are pretty well banged up.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Kate is a talented individual who brings a range of communications experience to the team, she will be a key advisor to me, a terrific asset to our office, and an important member of the entire White House organization.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I'm going to put aside my notes and talk to you from my heart because I've been in this business for 45 years.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We're not looking to embarrass him, we're not looking for regime change. We're not looking for any fundamental alteration of the circumstances inside Russia. We're looking for him to, in our view, act rationally.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What shape we’d be in as a nation if we didn’t have you doing the job, we expect you to do everything. We expect you to be constitutional scholars. We expect you to have instantaneous reactions to a crisis without making any mistake or without knowing what’s behind that door or what’s in that guy’s pocket.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Ron Dermer said. While the White House is re-evaluating how to rebuild its relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu, President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have met with prominent Jewish leaders and organizations to reassure them they deal will not put Israel at risk. This isn't a grand bargain between the United States and Iran, it's based on hard-hitting, hard-headed compromises and assessments.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's only natural for two democracies like ours, we're like family. We have a lot to say to one another. Sometimes we drive each other crazy, but we love each other — and we protect each other.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
In this moment of some disagreement occasionally between our governments I want to set the record straight on one thing, no president has ever done more to support Israeli security than President Barack Obama.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We're like family, we have a lot to say to one another. Sometimes you drive each other crazy but we love each other and we protect each other.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This is no time to turn back, the only thing we should turn back is the Republican budget.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
There are still things within our power as a nation we can do by returning to basics. Not left-leaning, liberal ideas that are bordering on confiscation, wealth-envy, basic, basic things: build roads, bridges, technology, invest in research and development and generate more educational achievement.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
There's a lot the President and I care about that has to get done in the next two to three months, when you run for president you've got to run for president, and I'm not ready to do that, if I'm ever going to be ready to do that.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Around the world, America's influence depends on its ability to honor its commitments.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Under presidents of both parties, such major shifts in American foreign policy as diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China, the resolution of the Iran hostage crisis, and the conclusion of the Vietnam War were all conducted without congressional approval.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
As the the authors of this letter must know, the vast majority of our international commitments take effect without Congressional approval.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
In thirty-six years in the United States Senate, I cannot recall another instance in which senators wrote directly to advise another country — much less a longtime foreign adversary — that the president does not have the constitutional authority to reach a meaningful understanding with them.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I understand you're going to hear from a bunch of candidates tomorrow, ask them whether they think you're a drag on the community, whether you're an obstacle to overcome ... Make a judgment. Do they understand you? Do they get who you are? Do they get what this is about?
Found on CNN 9 years ago
They act like you're the community's problem, as if you caused the recession, see if these guys get what this is all about, because we've got to change the dismissive contempt that is taking hold in this new outfit.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I’m not suggesting ... that I think America has all the answers here. We just have a lot more experience.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Societies have to provide an affirmative alternative for immigrant communities, a sense of opportunity, a sense of belonging that discredits the terrorist’s appeal to fear, isolation, hatred, resentment.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We have to ... engage our communities and engage those who might be susceptible to being radicalized because they are marginalized, societies have to provide an affirmative alternative for immigrant communities, a sense of opportunity, a sense of belonging that discredits the terrorist’s appeal to fear, isolation, hatred, resentment.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
That's a family personal decision that I'm going to make sometime at the end of the summer.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In my view those seeking to lead the nation should protect and defend and run, yes, run on what we’ve done, own what we have done, stand for what we have done, acknowledge what we have done and be judged on what (we have) done if we have any chance of a resurgence in 2016.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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