
When I am your President, the rest of the world will not look down on us with pity but up to us with respect again.
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When I am your President, the rest of the world will not look down on us with pity but up to us with respect again.

He has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.

I am a product of that middle class, and when I am President, you will be forgotten no more.

He's talked a lot about drugs, but he hasn't helped people on the front line to wage that war on drugs and crime. But I will.

We're losing our farms at a rapid rate, and he has no commitment to keep family farms in the family, but I do.

George Bush, if you won't use our power to help America, step aside. I will.

We have gone from first to 13th in the world in wages since Ronald Reagan and Bush have been in office.

I am well aware that all those millions of people who rallied to Ross Perot's cause wanted to be in an army of patriots for change. Tonight I say to them, join us, and together we will revitalize America.

A government that is leaner, not meaner; a government that expands opportunity, not bureaucracy.

That's why we need a new approach to government, a government that offers more empowerment and less entitlement.

We've gotten to where we've nearly them'ed ourselves to death. Them, and them, and them.

In the end, my fellow Americans, this New Covenant simply asks us all to be Americans again- old-fashioned Americans for a new time. Opportunity, responsibility, community.

I do not want to return to the time when we made criminals of women and their doctors.

We don't have a person to waste, and yet for too long politicians have told the most of us that are doing all right that what's really wrong with America is the rest of us.

This election is about putting power back in your hands and putting government back on your side. It's about putting people first.

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