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• Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

  Barack Obama

  Horse, Bayonets, Aircraft Carriers

  Third presidential debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney in Boca Raton, Fla., www.npr.org. October 22, 2012.

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• My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Important, Friendly

  "Networks Embrace Buffett's Call for Higher Taxes on 'Mega-Rich,' ABC Salivates Over Spending It". Article by Brent Baker, www.mrc.org. August 16, 2011.

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• I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available. If you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.

  Charlie Sheen

  Children, Winning, Blood

  "Top 25 Charlie Sheen quotes from his first week of explaining how awesome Charlie Sheen is" by Tony Pierce, Los Angeles Times, March 01, 2011.

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• I went to a number of women's groups and said, "Can you help us find folks," and they brought us whole binders full of women.

  Mitt Romney

  Stupid People, Numbers, Groups

  Second presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y, www.foxnews.com. October 16, 2012.

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• You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Fire, Police, Occupy Movement

  "Elizabeth Warren: 'There Is Nobody in This Country Who Got Rich on His Own'". Campaign video clip, www.cbsnews.com. September 22, 2011.

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• If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Successful, Lines

  Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event in Roanoke, Virginia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 13, 2012.

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• When they ask me who's the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I'm going to say, you know, I don't know. Do you know? And then I'm going to say how's that going to create one job?

  Herman Cain

  Jobs, President, Occupy Movement

  "Exclusive: Herman Cain Feeling 'Like Moses' and Ready for Media 'Gotcha' Questions". "The Brody File Show", October 8, 2011.

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• You mention the Navy, for example, and the fact that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

  Barack Obama

  Horse, Navy, Example

  "Scientifically speaking, who's funnier: Democrats or Republicans?" by Joel Warner and Peter McGraw, www.wired.com. October 23, 2012.

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• Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package.

  Gloria Allred

  Ideas, Important, Receiving

  "Blonde Bombshell from Chicago Accuses Cain". "The Rush Limbaugh Show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. November 7, 2011.

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• You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.

  Barack Obama

  Horse, Military, Land

  Barack Obama's remarks in the Third Presidential Debate at the Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 23, 2012.

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• Under current law, on January 1, 2013, there's going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.

  Ben Bernanke

  Cutting, Law, Important

  "Highlights: Bernanke's Q&A testimony to House panel". Ben Bernanke's remarks during the House Committee on Financial Services hearing at Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., www.reuters.com. February 29, 2012.

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• I care more about my country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Country, Years, Important

  "Top Republican Senator ditches Norquist anti-tax pledge", www.foxnews.com. November 23, 2012.

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• I have a job to do. ... If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me.

  Chris Christie

  Jobs, Thinking, Giving

  "Chris Christie Says He ‘Could Care Less’ About Presidential Election" by John Celock, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2012.

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• To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Crazy, Believe, Political

  Jon Huntsman @JonHuntsman, twitter.com. August 18, 2011.

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• There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Country, Occupy Movement, Rich

  Elizabeth Warren (2014). “A Fighting Chance”, p.215, Metropolitan Books

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• Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood.

  Bill Murray

  Inspirational, Blood, Giving

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• Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Nfl

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• Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.

  Sherman Alexie

  Writing, Native American, Ironic

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• We don't want someone who will get 98 percent of the vote. We want someone who will get 51 percent of the vote.

  Ann Coulter

  Want, Vote

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• Only 42 percent of Republicans believe Obama was born in the United States. That's an amazing statistic. How come in America Christians are the only ones who won't take anything on faith?

  Bill Maher

  Christian, Believe, America

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• Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

  Dirk Benedict

  Dream, Idaho, Actors

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• I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'

  Zosia Mamet

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fifty percent of people want to sleep with me, and the other 50 percent want to kill me.

  Rachel Marsden

  Sleep, People, Fifty

  "Rachel Marsden’s Weird Career" by Rebecca Traister, thetyee.ca. April 5, 2007.

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• Cause I can make more money going in and doing my recordings and selling them through my entities that I have, rather than going to a record co. and them release a record and pay me 5 percent of what they make off it.

  Mickey Gilley

  Records, Pay, Causes

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• If you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state, my tax rate's 62, 63 percent. So I've got to make some decisions on what I'm going to do.

  Phil Mickelson

  Decision, Add, Unemployment

  "Phil Mickelson may quit golf due to rising taxes". www.sbnation.com. January 21, 2013.

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