FREEDOM EDEN: Jerome Powell

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Friday, May 22, 2026

Kevin Warsh Sworn In as Fed Chair

"No one in America is better prepared to lead the Federal Reserve than Kevin Warsh."@POTUS highlights the incredible experience of Kevin Warsh prior to his swearing-in as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. https://t.co/jUukfzxLY0 pic.twitter.com/l7mJ7SSJQ0
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 22, 2026

Kevin Warsh is officially sworn in as the 17th Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System pic.twitter.com/03LqMFNpvi
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 22, 2026

Kevin Warsh delivers remarks upon swearing in as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors:

"While I'm not naive about the challenges we face, I believe... these years can bring unmatched prosperity that will raise living standards for Americans from all walks of life." pic.twitter.com/DQzQc0ERDQ
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 22, 2026

FINALLY!

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Kevin Warsh Confirmed - Chairman of the Federal Reserve

🚨 BREAKING — IT'S OFFICIAL: Kevin Warsh has been CONFIRMED by the US Senate to be the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 54-45

Jerome Powell is DONE! 🔥

President Trump's going to wake up in Beijing a happy man — if he even bothered going to sleep 😆 pic.twitter.com/XxfgB6l6Tq
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 13, 2026

Today, we congratulate Kevin Warsh on his confirmation to serve as the 17th Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Kevin possesses a deep wealth of knowledge and experience, having previously served on the National Economic Council and as the youngest ever Federal Reserve governor.…
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) May 13, 2026

Monday, May 4, 2026

'Too Late' Jerome Powell Hurts Americans

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— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 4, 2026

Like the rest of America, President Trump wants lower interest rates now.

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Trump Says He'll Fire Powell If He Won't Step Down

🚨 HOLY CRAP! President Trump is FIRING Fed Chair Jerome Powell if he refuses to step down in time for Kevin Warsh

FOX: You're not gonna drop the probe?

TRUMP: "I have to find out."

FOX: He said he's not leaving.

TRUMP: "Then I'll HAVE TO FIRE HIM! OK? If he's not leaving on… pic.twitter.com/0spB8NYaj4
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 15, 2026

Jerome Powell is a Democrat hack.

Friday, March 13, 2026

US Attorney Jeanine Pirro Blocked From Investigating Jerome Powell

The American public is fed up with taxpayer money that goes into an unaccountable black hole.

Today, an activist judge in Washington, D.C. has bathed Jerome Powell in immunity by taking the tool of a grand jury subpoena away from our ability to investigate the Federal Reserve.… pic.twitter.com/u6StlBURIu
— US Attorney Pirro (@USAttyPirro) March 13, 2026

🚨 BREAKING: Tyrannical Judge James Boasberg just ridiculously BLOCKED US Attorney Jeanine Pirro from investigating Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell

Jerome Powell now has essential TOTAL IMMUNITY. He just made Pirro effectively powerless.

THIS IS INSANE! IMPEACH BOASBERG! pic.twitter.com/5EsGfwxkG3
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 13, 2026

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. US Attorney Jeanine Pirro GOES HAYWIRE on the fake news, then STORMS out of the room!

"Oh, CUT IT OUT! You know how many convictions we've got? Cut it out! You're in one lane. We have cleaned up this city! Yeah, historic, really?!"

"I'll tell you what's… pic.twitter.com/uYJWZutLE4
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 13, 2026

Just watched this entire press conference from US Attorney Jeanine Pirro. The whole thing is a tactical, scorched-earth legal BEAT DOWN of judicial activism that plagues liberal justices. 🔥🔥

Everyone should watch it as it's an education into how the justice system is SUPPOSED… pic.twitter.com/siAPIyIOH6
— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) March 13, 2026

Friday, January 30, 2026

Trump Nominates Kevin Warsh as Next Federal Reserve Chair

President Donald J. Trump nominates Kevin Warsh as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve pic.twitter.com/M5FHQJzY2a
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 30, 2026

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

'Too Late' Powell Cuts Interest Rates 0.25%

🚨 BREAKING: For the second time this year, the Federal Reserve has cut interest rates by 0.25%

This brings rates to 3.75-4.00%

Should’ve been done a LONG time ago. pic.twitter.com/hF61T3GmJh
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 29, 2025

This is good news, but it's ridiculously late.

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Fed Cuts Interest Rates

🚨 BREAKING: The Fed is set to cut interest rates for the first time in 2025 — after months of pressure from President Trump.

Markets expect a 25-point cut — about 1/12 of what's needed — as job creation collapses...in large part due to the Fed's much-too-high rates.

THREAD 🧵 pic.twitter.com/OhsjpzIpzx
— Rod D. Martin (@RodDMartin) September 16, 2025

🚨 JUST IN: Newly Trump-appointed Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran DISSENTED against the Fed's 0.25-point interest rate cut in favor of a 0.5-point cut.

Keep cutting. pic.twitter.com/CT24KUkVq5
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 17, 2025

More cuts.

Friday, August 22, 2025

Stock Market Surges, Dow Hits Record High

FOX NEWS ALERT: Dow Jones soars to RECORD HIGH, surging over 850 points as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell signals a September rate cut.

Edward Lawrence: “The markets have just taken off on the news that Fed Chairman hints that there could be a rate cut — we could see it… pic.twitter.com/xddBpwTYSZ
— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) August 22, 2025

JUST IN: The Dow Jones hits a record high. pic.twitter.com/g4PE0TUl0D
— Brew Markets (@brewmarkets) August 22, 2025

"The Dow Jones Industrial Average marked a record close on Friday, its first in 2025."https://t.co/DgJgy3vayQ
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) August 22, 2025

So much winning.

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Trump Wants Lower Interest Rates for Forgotten Men and Women

This isn’t political. It’s right vs. wrong.

People can’t buy homes, small businesses are drowning in interest—and the federal reserve is asleep at the wheel.

President Trump is calling for lower interest rates—and he’s right. Enough is enough. pic.twitter.com/DrD6f4iGPw
— Lou Holtz (@CoachLouHoltz88) July 29, 2025

Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve are obstructing people from realizing the American Dream.

Thursday, July 24, 2025

Federal Reserve Renovations and the Feds Internal Documents

.@JamesBlair47 cooks Fake News CNN's @kaitlancollins over the exorbitant cost of the Fed renovation: "I don't know what you're saying ... The President was citing THEIR numbers from THEIR forms that THEY have published." pic.twitter.com/FFwMSXda1q
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 24, 2025

"Their numbers," Kaitlan Collins.

Tim Scott Calls for Lower Interest Rates

.@SenatorTimScott: "Americans deserve to become first-time homebuyers. @POTUS has created the best economy in the world. The one thing that would make it better is lower interest rates." pic.twitter.com/cKFMeBJuOr
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 24, 2025

President Trump, Sen. Tim Scott, and the Trump administration are fighting for the forgotten men and women of America.
Of course, it's aggravating to deal with Jerome Powell and others obstructing their efforts to give first-time homebuyers access to realize their American Dream.
Hopefully, for the sake of the American people, Powell's days as chair of the Federal Reserve are numbered.

Trump at the Federal Reserve

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump confirms he’ll be heading over to the Federal Reserve in just minutes to check on Jerome Powell’s $3.1 BILLION “renovation”

Get your popcorn ready 🤣 pic.twitter.com/370ExKDOM9
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) July 24, 2025

.@POTUS has arrived at the Federal Reserve pic.twitter.com/bkyMQs1dmg
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 24, 2025

.@POTUS to Fed Chair Jerome Powell on the exorbitant cost overruns of their palace-like HQ renovation: "It looks like it's about $3.1 billion. It went up a little bit — or a lot." pic.twitter.com/5Hv8EUPm0m
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 24, 2025

REPORTER: As a real estate developer, what would you do with the project manager who would be over budget?@POTUS: "Generally speaking, what would I do? I'd FIRE HIM!" pic.twitter.com/Pn1amYIF0q
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 24, 2025

Jerome Powell could not look more uncomfortable. President Trump looks to be enjoying himself.

.@POTUS: "I believe that the Chairman's going to do the right thing... it's so big what's taking place in America... In a short period of time, we made it the hottest country in the world. With all of that being said... we can do better if interest rates come down." pic.twitter.com/29DIPsqwlN
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 24, 2025

.@SecScottBessent on the Fed: "I don't really understand what's going on with the size, the scope, the cost of the building renovations. One can ask, was it a good idea to start the renovations for an enterprise that's losing $100B a year?" pic.twitter.com/aVcde0ZHuQ
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 24, 2025

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Fed Should Cut Rates Now

.@SecScottBessent: "The Fed has had big mission creep and that's where a lot of the spending is going... and I think they got to stay in their lane... they should be cutting rates now."@POTUS: "It's inconceivable... that they can be spending $2.7B to build a building." pic.twitter.com/psXEaJtr2f
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 22, 2025

Jerome Powell refuses to do what's best for the country.

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Looking for Powell's Replacement

BREAKING: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says a “formal process” has started to identify Powell’s replacement as Fed Chair pic.twitter.com/l3e9kbsicx
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 15, 2025

Good.

Friday, July 11, 2025

Bill Pulte Calls For Jerome Powell to Resign

It is time for Jerome Powell to resign. https://t.co/OtuM7oKe6D
— Pulte (@pulte) July 10, 2025

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump accuses Fed Chair Jerome Powell of costing the US a TON of money by keeping interest rates so high.

"We should be 3 points lower!"

"We should be number 1, and we're not, because of Jerome Powell."

I am with @Pulte on this. He must RESIGN. pic.twitter.com/dom8HzgtrR
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 11, 2025

Statement from Chairman of the Board of Fannie Mae on Reports that Jerome Powell Is Considering Resigning

Washington, D.C. - "I'm encouraged by reports that Jerome Powell is considering resigning. I think this will be the right decision for America, and the economy will boom." pic.twitter.com/7FPe2zla3i
— Pulte (@pulte) July 11, 2025

Monday, June 30, 2025

Trump, Jerome Powell, and Interest Rates

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— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 30, 2025

Holy shlit. Brutal. Powell is cooked pic.twitter.com/4Q44izQHdi
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 30, 2025

Jerome Powell is engaged in sabotage.

Sunday, May 4, 2025

Trump, Jerome Powell, and Interest Rates

NBC: Today's strong jobs report likely means the Fed is less likely to lower interest rates.@POTUS: "Well, he should lower them, and at some point, he will. He'd rather not because he's not a fan of mine... He should lower them... we are at a perfect time." pic.twitter.com/1FXXAQxud9
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 4, 2025

"[Jerome Powell] just doesn't like me because I think he's a total stiff."
Jerome Powell should do what's best for our economy instead of playing silly political games.

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Bidenomics: 'We Get to Pay More to Live Worse'

If you ask most people to define Bidenomics, they would say, “That’s easy: We get to pay more to live worse.” pic.twitter.com/lbEhN1yPoO
— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) July 9, 2024

That's Bidenomics in a nutshell.

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Powell: No Interest Rates Cut Due to Persistently High Inflation

*POWELL: GAINING CONFIDENCE TO CUT WILL TAKE LONGER THAN THOUGHT

Fed desperate to start cutting
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 1, 2024

BREAKING NEWS: The Federal Reserve has revealed persistent high inflation recently. The authority doesn't intend to slash interest rates until it ensures price hikes are steadily declining towards its 2% goal. https://t.co/8guskY8xJC
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) May 1, 2024

Biden and Bidenomics are bad for Americans.

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--DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ

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--JOHN NICHOLS

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--MICHAEL MOORE

"Why don't we just raise the taxes and let these folks have their collective bargaining, have their union representation and go back to their jobs? Raise the taxes on the wealthy."

--DAVID LETTERMAN

"In 1933, [Hitler] abolished unions and that's what our Governor [Scott Walker] is doing today."

--LENA TAYLOR, Democrat State Senator

"So I would urge my Republican colleagues, no matter how strongly they feel -- you know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a president. And all three of us are going to have to come together and give some, but it is playing with fire to risk the shutting down of the government."

--CHUCK SCHUMER

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--JOHN LEWIS

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--SLY SYLVESTER

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--JOY BEHAR

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--MICHELLE OBAMA

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"[Christine O'Donnell is] a witch who doesn't masturbate."

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"Ah, the Tea Party, the nativist bed-wetters who somehow control our national dialogue. Yes, I call them the Pee Party, Jay, because they're always peeing in their pants about something. They're just, they're afraid of a mosque being built in New York. They're afraid of guns. You know, they think Obama, who like every other pussy Democrat has never said a single word about gun control, but they are very sure that he and his Negro army are coming after their guns. You know what? If you think that he's coming after your guns, you need to get out of your chat room and have your house tested for lead. He's not coming after your guns or your Bible or your fishing pole or your chewing tobacco."

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--BILL GATES

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--IESHUH GRIFFIN

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--SARAH SPITZ

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--KING SAMIR SHABAZZ

"If this was Texas, which is the state that, that is directly on the border with Mexico, and they were calling for a measure like this, saying that they had a major issue with, you know, with undocumented people flooding their borders, I would say I would have to look twice at this. "But this is a state that is a ways removed from the border. And, um, it just, it doesn't make sense to me that when you google this subject, if you put in 'Arizona S.B. 1070,' that you see a picture of the governor of Arizona meeting with President Obama in May of 2010. If you have direct linkage to the president, there are already National Guard troops on the border in Arizona."

--PEGGY WEST

"Tell [the Jews] to get the hell out of Palestine. Remember, these people are occupied and it's their land. It's not German. It's not Poland. [The Jews] can go home. Poland. Germany."

--HELEN THOMAS

"After the last eight years, it's good to have a president that knows what a library is."

--PAUL McCARTNEY

"By the way, I just want to point out I'm wearing my splash shield because I was told I was going to be in the splash zone (during Harry Smith's colonoscopy on live TV)."

--KATIE COURIC

"And that Word is, we have to give voice to what that means in terms of public policy that would be in keeping with the values of the Word."

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"Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk, but not job loss because of a child with asthma or someone in the family is bipolar—you name it, any condition — is job-locking."

--NANCY PELOSI

"Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what's going on today?"

--TOM HANKS

"The 'White Right' is trying to set Barack up to be assassinated.... Here are Christians praying for God to kill Barack Obama."

--LOUIS FARRAKHAN

"I refuse to accept the notion that the United States of America is not going to lead the world economically throughout the 20th Century."

--JOE BIDEN

"Obama's critics keep blasting him for Chicago-style politics. So, fine. Channel your inner Al Capone and go gangsta against your foes. Let 'em know that if they aren't with you, they are against you, and will pay the price."

--ROLAND MARTIN

"Martha Coakley is running to fill the rest of Ted Kennedy's term, and her opponent is a far-right tea-bagger Republican."

--CHUCK SCHUMER

"I tell you what, if I lived in Massachusetts, I'd try to vote ten times. I don't know if they'd let me or not, but I'd try to. Yeah, that's right, I'd cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. 'Cause that's exactly what they are."

--ED SCHULTZ

"We also see how revved up the tea baggers are at the thought of hijacking health care reform and every chance we have at making progress in Washington."

--JOHN KERRY

"A few years ago, this guy (Obama) would have been getting us coffee."

--BILL CLINTON

"I didn't realize I had written a column defending Roman Polanski and minimized his crime - are you sure it was me? I mean, I? There is, apparently, more to this crime than it would seem, and it may sound like a hollow defense, but in Hollywood I am not sure a 13-year-old is really a 13-year-old."

--TOM SHALES

"Joe Wilson yelled 'You lie!' at a president who didn't. But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!"

--MAUREEN DOWD

"One awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankee game... During the 7th inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez."

--DAVID LETTERMAN

"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life."

--SONIA SOTOMAYOR

"We all considered sexual abuse of minors as a moral evil, but had no understanding of its criminal nature."

--REMBERT WEAKLAND, Archbishop of Milwaukee 1977- 2002

"You know, you might want to look into this, [President Obama], because I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker, but he was so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight."

"Rush Limbaugh -- 'I hope the country fails.' I hope his kidneys fail."

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"[Obama] told me I did a great job. The first lady said the same thing. I got a 'well done' from the president, I'm on cloud nine."

--WANDA SYKES

"Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less."

--COLIN POWELL

"[Tea Party goers are] just a bunch of wimpy, whiny, weasels who don't love their country."

--PAUL BEGALA

"I wouldn't want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court."

--BARNEY FRANK

"Going forward, my mind will be open to every solution -- except one. We should not -- we must not -- and I will not -- raise taxes."

--JIM DOYLE, Liar

"He's a terrorist. Rush Limbaugh is a terrorist."

--JOY BEHAR

"You know, I just want to say to her (Sarah Palin), just very quickly...F--- you."

--JON STEWART

"Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery?"

--WHOOPI GOLDBERG

"I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God."

--FR. MICHAEL PFLEGER

"Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken. Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation."

--MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD

"We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals."

--TED TURNER

"Look, [Mitt] Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from that lineage and says, 'I respect this religion fully.'"

--LAWRENCE O'DONNELL

"Mexico does not end at its borders... Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico."

--FELIPE CALDERON

"The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.' If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate that the baby is flame retardant."

--AL GORE

"Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers."

--ROSIE O'DONNELL

"Is America ready for a black president? Well, I say we just had a retarded one. When did being black become a bigger deterrent than being retarded?"

--CHRIS ROCK

"Shut the f--- up! Shut up if you can't take a joke [about President Bush]!"

--BARBRA STREISAND

"Right, oh, yeah, Happy 9/11! Celebrate the day, right?"

--JAMES BROLIN, Mr. Barbra Streisand

"I think President Bush very well may have signed an authorization for the 9/11 attacks."

--KEVIN BARRETT, UW-MADISON Lecturer

"I said what I said. I am not guilty."

--SADDAM HUSSEIN

"Terri will not be starved to death. Her nutrition and hydration will be taken away."

--MICHAEL SCHIAVO

"On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths -- half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. "

--BILL MOYERS

"I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for."

--HOWARD DEAN

"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win."

--MICHAEL MOORE

"And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the--of--the historical customs, religious customs."

--JOHN KERRY

"F---ing retarded."

"[Republicans] can go f--- themselves!"

--RAHM EMANUEL

"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."

--HILLARY CLINTON

"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is."

--BILL CLINTON

"And let me tell you something -- for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment."

--MICHELLE OBAMA

"If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew, uh, as a janitor, makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that with a badge of honor."

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"If you love me, you got to help me pass this bill."

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"[F]or most of my lifetime, the United States was such a dominant economic power, we were such a large market, our industry, our technology, our manufacturing was so significant that we always met the rest of the world economically on our terms. And now, because of the incredible rise of India and China and Brazil and other countries, the United States remains the largest economic and the largest market but there’s real competition out there. And that's potentially healthy. It makes -- Michelle was saying earlier I like tough questions because it keeps me on my toes. Well, this will keep America on its toes."

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"If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, 'We're gonna PUNISH OUR ENEMIES and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,' if they don't see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it's gonna be harder and that's why I think it's so important that people focus on voting on November 2."

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"We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but THEY GOTTA SIT IN BACK."

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"We can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever... we absorbed it and we are stronger."

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"We're buying shrimp, guys."

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"We are the ones we've been waiting for."

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"We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers so I know whose ass to kick."

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"We're not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that's fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money. But, you know, part of the American way is, you know, you can just keep on making it if you’re providing a good product or you're providing good service. We don't want people to stop fulfilling the core responsibilities of the financial system to help grow the economy."

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"If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."

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"It is a vital national security interest of the United States to reduce these conflicts because whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower, and when conflicts break out, one way or another we get pulled into them. And that ends up costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure."

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"But I -- I think that the most important thing for the public to understand is, we're not handling any of these cases any different than the Bush administration handled them all through 9/11."

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"One such translator was an American of Haitian descent, representative of the extraordinary work that our men and women in uniform do all around the world -- Navy CORPSE-MAN Christian [sic] Brossard. And lying on a gurney aboard the USNS Comfort, a woman asked Christopher: 'Where do you come from? What country? After my operation,' she said, 'I will pray for that country.' And in Creole, CORPSE-MAN Brossard responded, 'Etazini.' The United States of America."

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"I hear that Dr. Joe Medicine Crow was around, and so I want to give a shout-out to that Congressional Medal of Honor winner. It's good to see you."

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"We are God's partners in matters of life and death."

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"[T]he Cambridge police acted stupidly."

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"I am going to teach [my daughters] first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."

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"The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings, and INEFFICIENCIES to our health care system."

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"Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."

--BARACK OBAMA

NOTEWORTHY QUOTATIONS

"In a word, freedom is ever new. It is a challenge held out to each generation, and it must constantly be won over for the cause of good.... [A] democracy without values can lose its very soul."

--POPE BENEDICT XVI

"When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society."

--POPE JOHN PAUL II

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."

--MOTHER TERESA

"To promote choice for its own sake is more akin to self-indulgence than self-determination. It is the philosophy of a pre-schooler in a candy shop."

--BRIAN POLLARD, M.D.

"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."

--MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

"The house we hope to build is not for my generation but for yours. It is your future that matters. And I hope that when you are my age, you will be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. We lived lives that were a statement, not an apology."

--RONALD REAGAN

"Liberalism is the philosophy of the stupid."

--MARK LEVIN

"We are Warriors forever."

--BO ELLIS

"I know how much you're supposed to enjoy every sandwich, you know."

--WARREN ZEVON

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