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'I'd rather be a really good one-term President than a mediocre two-term President.'

BARACK OBAMA, vowing in a Jan. 25 interview with Diane Sawyer to continue to press for health care reform

'If our messages had been able to reach you through words, we wouldn't have been delivering them through planes.'

OSAMA BIN LADEN, purportedly speaking on a recently released audio tape, praising Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab for his attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound aircraft on Christmas Day. The tape also threatened future attacks against the U.S.

'I did it my way, with people I love. I do not...

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