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What can burn ? It's stone.

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Found on CNN 2 days ago Politics

I think you have to for the sake of the office.

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Found on CNN 8 days ago Politics

If Iran does anything that it shouldn't be doing, they will be suffering the consequences and very strongly.

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Found on CNN 10 days ago Politics

They're allowed to kill our people, they're allowed to torture and maim our people, they're allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people, and we're not allowed to touch their cultural sites ? It doesn't work that way.

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Found on CNN 13 days ago Politics

We have a situation where we're looking very strongly at sinks and showers and other elements of bathrooms where you turn the faucet on -- and in areas where there's tremendous amounts of water, where the water rushes out to sea because you could never handle it, and you don't get any water, you turn on the faucet and you don't get any water. They take a shower and water comes dripping out. Just dripping out, very quietly dripping out.

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Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

I am not going to talk about this anymore ! oil is at fifty dollars a barrel. Do you know how stupid it would be to pick this fight ? Oil would go up to one hundred fifty dollars a barrel. Jesus. How( f **** ing) stupid would I be ?

– The President

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

Let me just tell President Trump : I hardly know the gentleman.

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Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

They tried to take me down.

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Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

I don't want to prejudge even what we decide in the House. We're going to finish our investigation and the public testimony and then as a deliberative body and in consultation with our constituents and our conscience and make a decision on whether the remedy of impeachment is warranted.

– The President

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

Russia treated us great. They opened up. We had a fly over certain Russia areas, Russia-held areas. Russia was great. Iraq was excellent. We really had great cooperation, turkey -- we dealt with them. They knew we were going in. We flew over some territory. They were terrific. No problem.

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Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

I think Donald Trump forgets that we are a nation of values. That we are not just transactional. The President's a transactional President.

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Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

There's a lot of talk about Biden's son.

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Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

I do think signing USMCA on a bipartisan basis with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and everybody else -- very bipartisan -- I think Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer's very important for our country, and I would certainly be willing to say that's a bipartisan deal.

– The President

Found on CNN 3 months ago US News

He happens to be Hispanic, but I've never quite figured it out because he looks more like a WASP than I do.

– The President

Found on CNN 4 months ago Top News

I know nothing about an Air Force plane landing at an airport( which I do not own and have nothing to do with) near Turnberry Resort( which I do own) in Scotland, and filling up with fuel, with the crew staying overnight at Turnberry( they have good taste !) , nOTHING TO DO WITH ME.

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Found on CNN 4 months ago Top News

I mean, you know, I'm not even thinking of it, it's so far out. I mean, it's so far out. That would be the only reason.

– The President

Found on CNN 5 months ago Top News

Our economy is incredible, we're right now the number one country anywhere in the world by far as an economy.

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Found on CNN 5 months ago Top News

See, the bottom line is, I know you like me and this room is a lovefest and I know that, but you have no choice but to vote for me, because your 401( k) s... down the tubes. Everything is going to be down the tubes, so whether The President love me or hate me, The President've got to vote for me.

– The President

Found on CNN 5 months ago Top News

Though we are keeping the metaphorical lights on, we are not the heroes that some make us out to be. The real' resistance' must come from American voters in 2020.

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Found on CNN 5 months ago US News

I've talked about it too, but it's not -- it is not healthy to have these games teaching kids that, you know, this dispassionate notion that you can shoot somebody and just, you know, sort of blow their brains out, it's not in and of itself the reason why we have this carnage on our streets.

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Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

This country needs healing, there's so much division in America along racial lines. It's worse than it was years ago, it's worse.

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Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

It might be a wine, it might be on something else, we'll be announcing that fairly soon.

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Found on CNN 5 months ago Top News

Trumpworld even lies about the lies ! This exchange happened outside the W.H. on Tuesday : Reporter :.

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Found on CNN 5 months ago Top News

We are now telling Turkey that because you have really been forced to buy another missile system, we're not going to sell you the F-35 fighter jets, it's a very tough situation that they're in and it's a very tough situation that we've been placed in, the United States. With all of that being said, we're working through it, we'll see what happens. But it's not really fair.

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Found on CNN 6 months ago Politics

If you go 150 years from now and we've had great success, that's not a number that's even thought to be affordable, it'll kill millions of jobs. It'll crush the dreams of the poorest Americans and disproportionately harm minority communities. I will not stand for it. We will defend the environment, but we will also defend American sovereignty, American prosperity, and we will defend American jobs.

– The President

Found on CNN 6 months ago Politics

We have the cleanest air in the world in the United States, and United States's gotten better since I'm The President. We have the cleanest water ; it's crystal clean. And I always say I want crystal clean water and air.

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Found on CNN 6 months ago Politics

I may if Chuck Todd'd like me to do it, I'll do that. i think House Speaker Nancy Pelosi feels that I will win much easier.

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Found on CNN 6 months ago Politics

The sanctions have hit them hard -- more sanctions are going to be put on them, a lot more.

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Found on CNN 7 months ago Politics

We're putting additional sanctions on, they're going on slowly and, in some cases, pretty rapidly, but additional sanctions are being put on Iran, some of them are already in place.

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Found on CNN 7 months ago Politics

We're looking at Iran, we're very prepared for Iran. We'll see what happens.

– The President

Found on CNN 7 months ago Politics

I hope it all works out for China and for Hong Kong, i'm sure they'll be able to work it out.

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Found on CNN 7 months ago Politics

They devalue their currency. They have for years. It's put them at a tremendous competitive advantage.

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Found on CNN 7 months ago Politics

If she ever wanted to run for president.

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Found on CNN 7 months ago Top News

We've had White House investigation. We have Senate investigations. We have investigations like nobody's ever had before.

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Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

They took many, many parts of that deal and they renegotiated, you can't do that.

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Found on CNN 8 months ago Top News

I think it's a great idea, I think it's really fair, too.

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Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

You've got a hard job.

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Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

No, no, I don't need a summit. I think we've done very well without the summit.

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Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

( Atkins) rose to the highest calling, Jack Atkins laid down Jack Atkins life to save the lives of Jack Atkins fellow warriors. In so doing, Jack Atkins embodied the deepest meaning of the motto of Mountain Division : Jack Atkins climbed to glory.

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Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

We're getting very close, that doesn't mean we get there. But we're getting very close.

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Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

It began illegally, and hopefully somebody's going to look at the other side.

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Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

I don't really. I think it's a small group of people that have very, very serious problems, I guess, if you look at what happened in New Zealand, perhaps that's the case, I don't know enough about it yet. They're just learning about the person and the people involved. But it's certainly a terrible thing.

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Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

I am now writing a final time to request your voluntary cooperation with this investigation, i ask that you begin producing all responsive documents immediately, and I request that you begin scheduling transcribed interviews with each witness identified by House Oversight Committee.

– The President

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

White House staffers get to have oversight, white House staffers have oversight over White House security clearances. For example, White House staffers have gotten involved in the outsourcing of White House security clearances, White House staffers have gotten involved in the backlog. That isn't exclusively an executive branch function. White House staffers have every right to exercise White House staffers constitutional role.

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Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

I'd love to see Mr. Kelly come before House Oversight Committee.

– The President

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

I just think Kamala Harris seemed to have a little better opening act than others. I think, a better crowd -- better crowd, better enthusiasm.

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Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

That could mean a military option. The President has been very clear that The President views that as a plausible play.

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Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

I fear this could still be a long, hard slog.

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Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

If The President is essentially stealing money that's been allocated to go to the various states for various purposes but no longer will, we're being harmed, our people are being harmed.

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Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

We have to get this put on paper at some point if we agree.

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Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

I will sign a bill to open our government for three weeks.

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Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

Over the next 21 days, I expect that both Democrats and Republicans will operate in good faith.

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Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

I have other alternatives if I have to and I'll use those alternatives if I have to.

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Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

This is where I ask House Democrats to come back to Washington and to vote for money for the wall, the barrier, whatever you want to call it, it's OK with me, they can name it whatever. They can name it' peaches.' I don't care what they name it. But we need money for that barrier.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

It's got a long way to go, tremendous amount to go.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I feel better about Syria than I felt before I had lunch. The President is taking this really seriously. The trip to Iraq was well timed.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Nancy Pelosi is calling the shots.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

It's hard to impeach somebody who hasn't done anything wrong and who's created the greatest economy in the history of our country.

– The President

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

They put that on there to embarrass me.

– The President

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

It seems to me to be an odd thing to say at this point in the process, she's not in The President jurisdiction. She's in Canadian jurisdiction. Intervening in the process means he would talk to [ Canadian Prime Minister Justin ] Trudeau, who has said more than once the normal judicial process will go ahead. It just creates another point of friction with Canada.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

If you're going to do it, the way to do it is make the Chinese come to us, let them grovel for a bit and then respond. You don't give them what they want up front. What do we get if he does that ? Nothing.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

It will be seen as validation of what they already think, that we're not a rule of law country, that's what makes it so poisonous, that they'll think we're just like them and we're not.

– The President

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

It's the respect and dignity of work matters for this country, and both parties, frankly, have not paid -- neither party has paid enough attention to that.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We're going to have to see.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We have a great Cabinet, we have absolute stars.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We have absolute stars.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Bob Mueller are screaming and shouting at people, horribly threatening Bob Mueller to come up with the answers Bob Mueller want, these are Angry People, including the highly conflicted Bob Mueller, who worked for Obama for 8 years. They won't even look at all of the bad acts and crimes on the other side. A TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY !

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I'll never forget the scene of Ivanka Trump coming out of prison after 21 years and greeting Ivanka Trump family and everybody was crying. Ivanka Trump sons, Ivanka Trump grandsons, everybody was crying and hugging and holding each other. It was a beautiful thing to see, it was a very tough situation.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I won't say today that I just nominated Neomi to be on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, the seat of Justice Justice Brett Kavanaugh, she's going to be fantastic -- great person.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

The visual on this for the world is really bad from a military perspective, it's using regular military troops for things that democracies really don't do.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

This will be the election of the caravan, Kavanaugh, law and order, tax cuts and common sense.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

The Democrats believe our country should be a giant sanctuary city for criminal aliens.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Saudi Arabia certainly looks that way to me, Saudi Arabia's very sad.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

She owes the country an apology.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

How is it going to work out ? I haven't heard a plan, this is the 13th week with no orders out of the Pacific Northwest and you know you want to be patriotic and you want to do the right thing but you wonder, why am I suffering so that Apple can grow bigger, so that tech can get the advantage of what we're doing.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

All of what we've done is at stake in November. Five weeks away from one of the most important elections in our lifetimes. ... I'm not running, but I'm really running, that's why I'm all over the place fighting for great candidates.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Why didn't somebody call the FBI 36 years ago ?

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I would say it's a failure of the state of North Carolina to successfully evacuate people, which is North Carolina's responsibility, it is not the federal government's responsibility to set evacuations, to make people evacuate. It's states and localities. I can't tell you where the failure was in Puerto Rico.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

What we're getting ready to have happen is going to probably going to dislocate over 100,000 people -- and 44,000 were dislocated in the Texas storm, this is potentially three or four or five times greater and I will tell you they are prepared as prepared as one can be.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Just this week we learned that Iowa authorities... they charged an illegal alien in the murder of a college student -- Mollie Tibbetts.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Paul ManafortIt is Paul ManafortIt, paul ManafortIt was with Ronald Reagan. Paul ManafortIt was with a lot of different people over the years. I feel very sad about that. It doesn't involve me.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I don't think Attorney General Jeff Sessions has the authority to do that, i don't fully get what Attorney General Jeff Sessions's trying to do.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

For now, a handful of ICE officers and staff are taking this mayor and city on all by ourselves, we’ll fight alone for the rule of law and safety of our employees nationwide if that’s what it takes, but someone on our side would be a welcome change moving forward.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

I'm here to say, the warning lights are blinking red again, dHS does not have evidence of the fact that anywhere near what happened in 2016.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I thought President Putin was very, very strong.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I don't think the United States could possibly have a better emissary than our magnificent, and wonderful person, our first lady, Melania Trump.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I don't think my role is to rubber stamp for the President, but it's also not an automatic knee-jerk no, either.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Pence : Crisis in Venezuela threat to US, regional security.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Can you imagine ?

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Harley-Davidson, please build those beautiful motorcycles in the USA, please, don't get cute with us. Don't get cute.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I think we're doing great. We're getting what we need.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Of course, I don't agree with the Supreme Court ruling but I'm a realist when it comes to legislation on the floor of the Senate and the House, it's doubtful that anything is going to move forward.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We need to reclaim our values. It's not partisan values, we just can not walk away from the fact of how this all started, which was a President that said he wanted to ban Muslims from our country.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Conscience of a Conservative, i have a chapter in there about some doctors that saved my father-in-law. They came from majority-Muslim countries that under the current travel ban, they probably wouldn't be here.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

This ruling is also a moment of profound vindication following months of hysterical commentary from the media and Democratic politicians who refuse to do what it takes to secure our border and our country, as long as I am The President, I will defend the sovereignty, safety, and security of the American People, and fight for an immigration system that serves the national interests of the United States and United States citizens. Our country will always be safe, secure, and protected on my watch.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

The dilemma is that if you're weak, if you're weak, which some people would like you to be, if you're really, really pathetically weak, the country's going to be overrun with millions of people, and if The President're strong, then The President don't have any heart. That's a tough dilemma. Perhaps I would rather be strong, but that's a tough dilemma.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I'll be doing something that's somewhat preemptive and ultimately will be matched by legislation I'm sure.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Our view is that these actions are necessary to defend this country, and that they are ultimately bullish for Corporate America, for the working men and women of America, and for the global trading system.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I like the #MeToo movement ; it’s way overdue.

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Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

They disagree with The President because The President insists that they proudly stand for the National Anthem, hand on heart, in honor of the great men and women of our military and the people of our country.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Senate Democrats're resisting the will of the American voter and it is not good.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

As I have stated many times, a thorough investigation will confirm what we already know — there was no collusion between my campaign and any foreign entity.

– The President

Found on CNN 1 year ago US News

A lot of good things could happen, a lot of bad things can happen, i believe that both sides want to negotiate a deal. I believe we have a really good shot at it being successful.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Well, we don't have to. He's the President of the United States, we can assert the same privileges as other presidents have.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

We actually have had a great relationship right from the beginning, but some people didn't understand that, but we understand it, and that's what's important.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Kevin Madden, a Republican strategist, told CNN's Don Lemon on Thursday night, also finding nothing likely to change the trajectory of the special counsel investigation.The documents will also renew attention on the odd relationship between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.That's because while noting Trump's denial about notorious allegations that he watched prostitutes engage in lewd behavior in a Moscow hotel, they include a bizarre comment by the President about an undated conversation with Putin.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

There has been repeated and proven violations of the treaty.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago World

Conditions on the ground, not arbitrary timetables, will guide our strategy from now on.

– The President

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

If they don't start, they won't have a problem, if they do start it's awfully tough to get off.

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Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

I am very delighted for your vision.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

But you have this knowledge. So you still fight against this because it's the only thing you can do. i'm not regurgitating any of this information.

– The President

Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

I'm not regurgitating any of this information.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

I think the Susan Rice thing is a massive story, i think it's a massive, massive story... I think it's going to be the biggest story.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

Well, would you like to make a change, folks? Would you like to make a change? Because if anybody wants to make a change, you won't have so many jobs, that I can tell you. Your jobs will be a whole different story.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

Hey look, in the meantime, I guess, I can't be doing so badly, because I'm president, and you're not.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

I'm a very instinctual person.

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Found on CNN 2 years ago Top News

If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period.

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Found on FOX News 3 years ago Opinion

When I see you, I think about my own youth because I wasn't that different from you -- probably not as articulate and maybe more of a goof-off, but the main difference was I lived in a more forgiving environment. but what I also want to say to you is that you're really important to the future of this country.

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Found on CNN 3 years ago US News

He kinda told me that I'm the future -- not only me, but the youth are the future of this country, it really inspired me.

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Found on CNN 3 years ago US News

The fact the Supreme Court wasn’t able to issue a decision today doesn’t just set the system back even further, it takes us further back from the country we want to be.

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Found on FOX News 3 years ago Opinion

Not only is that contrary to our values.

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Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

We got to have not just a Democratic president who can continue the legacy that we built together over the last 7½ years, but we've got to have a Senate that is a partner in this process, and I can list a whole bunch of reasons for why that's so important. It turns out that because of the untimely death of Justice Scalia -- and obviously we grieve for his family -- but the behavior of the Senate since then, I think, gives you a pretty good reason of why we think the Senate is so important.

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Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

I'm absolutely convinced that we will have a Democratic successor as president, i believe we will take back the United States Senate. I think we will make real progress with respect to the House. But it depends on people feeling as if that can happen, and being engaged and working just as hard and just as full of hope as they did in 2008. And that's going to depend on me, but it's also going to depend on you. It's going to depend on each of us.

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Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

The longer that we allow the political rhetoric of late to continue and the longer that we tacitly accept it, we create a permission structure that allows the animosity in one corner of our politics to infect our broader society, and animosity breeds animosity.

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Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

At a time when our politics are so polarized, at a time when norms and customs of political rhetoric and courtesy and comity are so often treated like they're disposable -- this is precisely the time when we should play it straight, because our Supreme Court really is unique. It's supposed to be above politics. It has to be. And it should stay that way.

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Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

The world is a tough, complicated, messy, mean place.

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Found on CNN 3 years ago US News

We haven't figured that out yet, hawaii's home for me but I spent almost 30 years in Chicago. It's where I met Michelle, it's where she grew up. It's where our daughters were born.

– The President

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Hawaii's home for me but I spent almost 30 years in Chicago. It's where I met Michelle, it's where she grew up. It's where our daughters were born.

– The President

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

This is a question between Article I and Article II -- the President is not permitted to write law. Only Congress is, the House will make that very, very clear and we will do so as an institution on behalf of the American people, on behalf of representative self-government.

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Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

Obviously it is election season and the press has been focused on debates and divisions they can drum up within the primary and within our party, and I'm not worried about this party staying united.

– The President

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

We've now closed off every single path Iran had to building a (nuclear) bomb, we'll know if Iran ever tries to break out.

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Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

We've achieved this historic progress through diplomacy.

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Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Don't take our foot off the gas.

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Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Hillary is doing great, happy as a clam.

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Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

It's awful, it's really awful.

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Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I'm happy to meet with them. I'm happy to talk with them.

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Found on CNN 4 years ago US News

While I'm writing, my team is cooking up new ways you can watch and engage with the speech, i hope you'll all tune in ... because this address will be for you.

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Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

The United States, France and our coalition of some 65 nations have been united in one mission -- to destroy these ISIL terrorists.

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Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I'm anticipating a Democrat succeeding me. I'm confident in the wisdom of the American people on that front.

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Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

We join with people around the world in praying for God's protection for persecuted Christians and those of other faiths, as well as for those brave men and women engaged in our military, diplomatic, and humanitarian efforts to alleviate their suffering and restore stability, security, and hope to their nations, in some areas of the Middle East where church bells have rung for centuries on Christmas Day, this year they will be silent; this silence bears tragic witness to the brutal atrocities committed against these communities by ISIL.

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Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I hope that's something that gives all Americans a sense of pride and a sense of hope.

– The President

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

' And I know that after so much war, many Americans are asking whether we are confronted by a cancer that has no immediate cure. The threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it.

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Found on FOX News 4 years ago U.S.

But it is clear that the two of them had gone down the dark path of radicalization, embracing a perverted interpretation of Islam that calls for war against America and the West.

– The President

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

There are people in our country’s history who don’t look left or right, they just look straight ahead. Shirley Chisholm was one of those people.

– The President

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I think if there is a party that needs to apologize, it is not us, those who violated our airspace are the ones who need to apologize. Our pilots and our armed forces, they simply fulfilled their duties, which consisted of responding to... violations of the rules of engagement. I think this is the essence.

– The President

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

Apparently they are scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America, at first, they were too scared of the press being too tough on them in the debates. Now they are scared of 3-year-old orphans. That doesn't seem so tough to me.

– The President

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

Another candidate boasts that he introduced an amendment to end nationwide marriage equality. One said he loves the Constitution except for Article 3.

– The President

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I categorically deny and reject the accusation that I was involved (in a corruption scheme) and having received any money from that customs fraud scheme.

– The President

Found on CNN 4 years ago World

We've been waiting for today's decision and it is a sharp rebuke to Sheriff Arpaio's challenge to the executive actions on deportations, all eyes are now on the Fifth circuit and we are hoping that they too, do the right thing and dismiss the meritless case.

– The President

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

All eyes are now on the Fifth circuit and we are hoping that they too, do the right thing and dismiss the meritless case.

– The President

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I'm more restricted, ironically, as President of the United States than I will be as a private citizen in terms of some of the hands-on direct help I want to do, partly because of schedule and partly because of making sure that in my relationship to Kenya, I'm understood to be operating as the President of the United States.

– The President

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

This Medal of Honor is a reminder that no matter how long it takes, it is never too late to do the right thing.

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Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

I might not be standing here today as president if not for the courageous sacrifices of these men.

– The President

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

The notion that I'm content as I celebrate with American citizens languishing in Iranian jails ... that's nonsense, and you should know better.

– The President

Found on CNN 4 years ago Top News

There's no precedent for revoking a medal. We don't have that mechanism.

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Found on CNN 4 years ago US News

Part of our goal here is to show that diplomacy can work. It doesn't work perfectly -- it doesn't give us everything that we want, we can't control every single event, but what we can do is shape events so that it's more likely that problems get solved, rather than less likely and that's the opportunity we have now.

– The President

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If Iran violates the deal, all of these sanctions will snap back into place, so there is a very clear incentive for Iran to follow through and there are very real consequences for a violation.

– The President

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Progress on this journey often comes in small increments sometimes two steps forward one step back, sometimes there are days like this where that slow steady effort is rewarded with justice.

– The President

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We have to shift how we think about this issue and we have the capacity to change, but we have to build a sense of urgency about it, that's how we honor those families (in Charleston). That's how we honor the families of Newtown, and that's how we honor the families in Aurora.

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We've got to learn the right lessons from that. The lesson is not that we pull up the drawbridge and build a moat around ourselves, the lesson is that we've got to make sure that the trade deals that we do shape our ones that allow us to compete fairly.

– The President

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I know you like Michelle a little bit more than me, and I assure you, you are not alone.

– The President

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When people say these trade deals are bad for working families they don't know what they're talking about, i take that personally.

– The President

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I've been talking about reversing income inequality and social mobility since before it was cool, i've got a bunch of people now talking about inequality. But back then they sure weren't.

– The President

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I take that personally.

– The President

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Let me say, Michelle would point out that first ladies get paid nothing. So there is clearly not equal pay in the White House, when it comes to her and me, but before we were in the White House, I wanted to make sure Michelle got paid as much as she could ... If she had a bigger paycheck, then that made us able to pay the bills.

– The President

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When you start getting to the point where you are actively communicating that the United States government and our secretary of state is somehow spinning presentations in a negotiation with a foreign power, particularly one that you say is your enemy, that's a problem, it needs to stop.

– The President

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No challenge poses more of a public threat than climate change.

– The President

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This strategy also has the benefit of providing a sense of hope that the problems can be addressed and avoided, if action is taken early enough. when the Clean Air Act was passed, not only was there a terrible smog in Los Angles, it was true in most metropolitan areas across the country.

– The President

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I think we've always known -- or at least in the 20th century we've understood -- that environment has an impact on public health.

– The President

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It's time that we work together with our Israeli friends and try to stem this tide of ISIS and Iranian movement throughout the region, which is threatening the very fabric of the region.

– The President

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If Selma taught us anything, it's that our work is never done.

– The President

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The actions of extremists are becoming more and more widespread, we are running into attempts of using so-called color technologies, from organizing illegal street protests to open propaganda (expressing) hatred in social networks.

– The President

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Within this room, we're not going to agree on everything, but I am committed to working with each and every one of you over the next two years to keep making progress.

– The President

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When people are oppressed and human rights are denied, particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines, when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism.

– The President

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I will be honored to shake their hands.

– The President

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The balkanization of the media means that we just don't have a common place where we get common facts and a common worldview the way we did 20, 30 years ago, my advice to a future president is increasingly try to bypass the traditional venues that create divisions and try to find new venues within this new media that are quirkier, less predictable.

– The President

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We are strongest as a nation when the President and Congress work together.

– The President

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For us to undermine diplomacy at this critical time for no good reason is a mistake and that what we need to do is to finish up this round of negotiations, put the pressure on Iran to say yes to what the international community is calling for.

– The President

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My job is to present the right ideas, and if Republicans think they have a better idea then they should present them.

– The President

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I was pretty sympathetic to the fact that they have business considerations that they got to make. Had Obama Investigators talked to me directly about this decision, I might have called the movie theater chains and distributors and asked Obama Investigators what the story was.

– The President

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I don't anticipate overnight changes. But what I know deep in my bones is that if you've done the same thing for 50 years and nothing's changed, you should try something different if you want a different outcome, suddenly Cuba is open to the world in ways that it has not been before.

– The President

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America knows how to solve problems.

– The President

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You know, if you look at the history of almost every President, those last two years, all kinds of stuff happens. In some cases, stuff that we couldn't predict.

– The President

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I think that is where Disney got the idea for Frozen.

– The President

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We will be right back with the leader of the free world.

– The President

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My mind went back to what it was like for me when I was 17, 18, 20, as I told them, not only do I hear the pain and frustration of being subjected to that kind of constant suspicion, part of the reason I got into politics was to figure out how can I bridge some of those gaps and understandings so that the larger country understands this is not just a black problem or a brown problem, this is an American problem.

– The President

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A country's conscience sometimes has to be triggered by some inconvenience, as long as they're peaceful, I think they're necessary. When they turn violent then they're counter-productive.

– The President

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It's important to recognize as painful as these incidents are, we can't equate what is happening now to what happened fifty years ago, if you talk to your parents, grandparents, uncles, they'll tell you that things are better -- not good, in some cases, but better.

– The President

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