Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.
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You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.
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I ask you to join in a re-United States. We need to empower our people so they can take more responsibility for their own lives in a world that is ever smaller, where everyone counts. We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American.
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And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have a weapons sweep and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities.
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You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
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I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo your time has come -- and gone. It's time for change in America.
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The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.
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It's the economy, stupid.
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Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.
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I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone. It's time for change in America.
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If something makes you cry; you have to do something about it. That's the difference between politics and guilt. I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone.
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I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose ... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans.
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