Quote by Barack Obama
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for whic

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost. – Barack Obama

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But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no. – Barack Obama

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War
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I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying. – Barack Obama

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Marriage
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Government
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Government is dysfunctional. – Michael Bloomberg

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Government

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. – John Locke

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Government

I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current writing teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out. – Eliot Spitzer

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Government

You dont pay taxes – they take taxes. – Chris Rock

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Government

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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. – Khalil Gibran

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Attitude

The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other. – Johnny Carson

Category:
Christmas

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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best

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a mans self. – Francis Bacon

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Advice