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“The Republican Party can keep telling you what they’re against. But the good news is Democrats keep telling you what things we’re for.” __ President Barack Obama, campaigning for Maryland’s Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown.
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“The good news is, it looks like we’ve dodged a bullet yet again.” __ Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell after Hawaii managed to dodge Hurricane Ana which churned 70 miles away from its shores Sunday.
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“This fight requires a commitment from every nation that has the capacity to help, whether that is with emergency funds, medical supplies or clinical expertise … It is the duty of all of us, as global citizens, to send a message that we will not leave millions of West Africans to fend for themselves against an enemy that they do not know, and against whom they have little defense.” __ Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in a “Letter to the World” broadcast Sunday by the BBC. Liberia is one of three West African nations that have been devastated by an outbreak of the fatal disease Ebola.
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