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I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.
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Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families.
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Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
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The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
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The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, isn't that wonderful?'
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Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
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Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.
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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
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It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.
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Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
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A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
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Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
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You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.
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I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.
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