We didn't crumble after 9/11. We didn't falter after the Boston Marathon. But we're America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.
From Joe Biden
Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.
For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.
For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.
Corruption is just another form of tyranny.
No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.
The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can't breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution.
Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.
We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don't forget it.
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