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• President [Barack] Obama's staking his reelection hopes on rebuilding America's middle class. He wants higher taxes on the wealthy, tougher rules on Wall Street, and everyone else to get a fair shot to succeed. Republicans can cry "class warfare" if they want, but as the president put it today, it's about this country's welfare.

  Chris Matthews

  Country, Wall, Class

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• I think that the candidates who are doing it [not debating] are doing a great disservice to the party. It`s a sign of an unhealthy institution.

  Chris Matthews

  Party, Thinking, Institutions

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• Let's not forget, Sarah Palin may not have a golden touch, but she gave Christine O'Donnell candidate a big touch that got her over the top.

  Chris Matthews

  May, Golden, Forget

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• You could see Newt Gingrich, who`s a member of Donald Trump`s country club, already getting together and talking about the new episode of "The Apprentice," with the poor kids in the city.This was a very smart thing to do. He shows that he is the grown-up in the Republican Party.

  Chris Matthews

  Country, Smart, Party

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• Once having said no to Donald Trump, Mitt Romney can't go back and say, I changed my mind, I'm bowing to the pressure from you.

  Chris Matthews

  Mind, Pressure, Trump

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• Here`s the Republican Party with round heels for anybody who says the right thing at the current moment. Regardless of their record, regardless of their character, and regardless of who they are, it seems that if you say the right stuff now to the Republican ear, Steve Schmidt, they will say yes, no matter who you are.

  Chris Matthews

  Party, Character, Records

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• You can be Mitt Romney with three marriages and a disastrous speakership, kicked out of the speakership, being reprimanded by the House of Representatives and fined and all that stuff, it doesn`t matter if you sing the right tune with the right tone these days.

  Chris Matthews

  House, Tunes, Three

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• I have never heard a president in bad times running against - let's face it, that's what he's doing here - running against bad times, when he's the presiding officer.

  Chris Matthews

  Running, President, Faces

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• I think also people in states like Pennsylvania know that a lot of money and effort and time needs to be spent on knitting America back together, on the bridges and the roads and the infrastructure and the education.

  Chris Matthews

  Thinking, Knitting, Bridges

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• It looks to me like the Republican Party`s in no mood to give them [voters] a reasonable choice with this clown show going on right now from the likes of, well, Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump. What a duo.

  Chris Matthews

  Party, Giving, Choices

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• Around the globe, millions more are mourning the death and celebrating the life of Pope John Paul II .Could any other world leader have drawn so many people to one place?

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  Other Worlds, People, Mourning

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• Pope John Paul II spoke with a lot of clarity and consistency. But he always spoke with immense compassion. He's the one who said the best way to love somebody is to tell them the truth. So, he did that well.

  Chris Matthews

  Compassion, Consistency, Way

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• I think, internally, we Catholics have known this for a long time. I think we're just thrilled and grateful that the rest of the world now is sharing in the esteem and gratitude that we've had for Pope John Paul II for 26 and a half years.

  Chris Matthews

  Gratitude, Grateful, Thinking

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• Stop calling me communist. Stop calling the rest of us communists. You`ve got to stand up for what you believe should be the American government`s spirit, not what you`re just attacking people`s credibility.

  Chris Matthews

  Believe, Government, People

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• Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process.

  Chris Matthews

  Modern, Process, Modern Times

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• Natural-born American means you don`t have to be naturalized. You were born to an American mother, like President Obama, no matter where you were born.

  Chris Matthews

  Mother, Mean, President

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• People do have a - people, unlike politicians, are allowed to change their minds. People are allowed to look back and say, you know what, all things considered, I don't think that was the smart move.

  Chris Matthews

  Smart, Moving, Thinking

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. October 24, 2006.

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• The reason I had unfaithfulness in one of my marriages is because I was too patriotic.

  Chris Matthews

  Patriotic, Reason, Unfaithfulness

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• There ought to be an onus on the people that want a law, rather than people that don`t need a new law.

  Chris Matthews

  Law, People, Needs

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• America's the one country in the world where anybody who comes here does better than where they came from.

  Chris Matthews

  Country, America, Doe

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• I think we all [americans] think we're a special country. But the question is, what - what call does that give us?

  Chris Matthews

  Country, Thinking, Giving

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• I look back to the Great Depression, and what Roosevelt was able to do in very difficult times, to get Social Security through back in the time when it was seen as - well, it wasn't what it is today. It was sort of a last-ditch, if you really need it, you got it, but, today, it's much more a part of your retirement program.

  Chris Matthews

  Retirement, Needs, Looks

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• Medicare, getting through that in the '60s, after Kennedy's assassination, where there was such an emotional desire to do something to carry on his agenda.

  Chris Matthews

  Emotional, Desire, Agendas

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• I`m impressed that people out there in Pennsylvania, deer hunter country, have had it with these stupid wars, that they don`t go along with the neocon theology, they don`t go along with the big money people or the evangelicals that always seem to want to fight, especially in the Middle East.

  Chris Matthews

  Country, War, Stupid

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• Pope John Paul II himself was kind of a rather independent, creative man. I remember being told by somebody who worked very close with him in preparation for his first visit to the United States in 1979, he studied our normative documents, Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, the Constitution. And he was amazed. He called his priests first
  thing in the morning and he said, he said, I thought America was a pagan country.

  Chris Matthews

  Country, Morning, Independent

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