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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial thin

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If youre sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I. – Barack Obama

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Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military. – Barack Obama

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War
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It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust. – Barack Obama

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Religion
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement. – Barack Obama

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Intelligence
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What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboys tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes. – William Makepeace Thackeray

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Money

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. Theyre about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover. – Al Franken

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Money

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out. – Arthur Rock

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Money

Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing. – William Cowper

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One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. – Proverb

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They pick all of us out, and then they decide, they computerize, decide if they like it or dont like it, and then they go home, and then they come back again because theyre not sure what they saw. – Alice Cooper

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Yeah, Ive worked with a couple of female directors, now, and I think that theyre amazing. As good or better than guy directors. – Alia Shawkat

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