04/06/2009
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"When I think about the choice I made as a 23-, 24-year-old, to spend three years working with churches to help people help themselves, it was the best education I ever had."
"If this is the deal he wants to make right now, I am committed to appointing him to my cabinet on national service."
"What President Bush and Senator McCain don't understand is that the central front in the war on terror is not in Iraq and it never was. The central front is in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the terr..."
"The notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them, which has been the guiding diplomatic principle of this administration, is ridiculous."