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“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”

“When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.”

“When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.”

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

“Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.”

“That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles.”

“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”

“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”

“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”