The great contest for the presidency is about the future, who can lead, who can get things done.

People say, well, do you ever hear any other voices other than, like, a few people? Of course I do.

By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.

I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.

Reading is the basics for all learning.

It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency." —George W. Bush, June 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling.

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