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Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
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Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.
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I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.
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I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.
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I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.
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Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.
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The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
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It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
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It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.
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The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
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We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
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