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I will oppose a Muslim registry with every fiber of my being. That is not the American way of conducting affairs and violates every principle we stand for.
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Fiber
Affairs
American Way
Oppose
Principle
Violates
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The criticism of the Democrats in the past is that they were too timid. They ran on consultant-driven platitudes and didn't offer a compelling enough vision.
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Compelling
Criticism
Platitudes
Timid
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We have tried to change regimes through a variety of means - over 80 times, by some estimates. Many of these efforts were counterproductive to U.S. interests.
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Regimes
Variety
Efforts
Estimates
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Silicon Valley needs partners. You can't do edited manufacturing just in the Valley. Why not have the DNA of manufacturing but combine it with the digital world?
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Digital
Digital World
Dna
Edited
Manufacturing
Partners
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Why Not
Combine
Valley
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I don't think anyone would object to Facebook selling ads or having ads directed at me, as long as people didn't think those ads were manipulated by personal data.
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Ads
Data
Selling
Me Long People
Long Me People
Directed
Facebook
Manipulated
Object
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We've got to get people across this country believing they can be a part of a technology future, that that's going to work for their families in an empowering way.
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Empowering
Believing
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More than stock prices or product launches, Silicon Valley's legacy will be defined by whether tech leaders step up to contribute to the larger American experiment.
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Defined
Legacy
Silicon
Contribute
Experiment
Prices
Product
Tech
Step
Valley
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The framers understood that the momentous decision to go to war requires the informed consent of the American people, expressed through their elected representatives.
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Consent
Framers
Representatives
American People
Elected
Expressed
Informed
Momentous
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The challenge for America is: can we become a multicultural, multiracial democracy? It would be historic. It would be America's greatest contribution to human civilization.
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Civilization
Contribution
Democracy
Historic
Human Civilization
Multicultural
Challenge
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There is a risk that overt American support for Guaido could shore up Maduro's base and trigger displays of military force, potentially plunging Venezuela into a civil war.
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Civil War
Military Force
Shore
Venezuela
Plunging
Potentially
Trigger
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I believe there are ways of cutting past some of the ideological logjams in Washington when it comes to issues of American economic competitiveness and a pro-growth agenda.
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Competitiveness
Cutting
Ideological
Believe Past I Believe
Believe I Believe Past
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I definitely think America should seek to lead and shape the world and make it safe for liberal democracy. I just don't think military intervention is going to get us there.
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Liberal Democracy
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We can't have all the concentration of wealth in a few places in this country. We've got to create economic opportunity and new industries in communities that feel left behind.
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Opportunity
Concentration
Economic
Left
Wealth
Behind
Communities
Create
Economic Opportunity
Industries
Places
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We have an economy that's really geared toward rewarding the investor class. What are we doing to make sure that people who want to have a middle-class life are able to keep up?
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Economy
Life People Doing
Life Keep People
Geared
Investor
Rewarding
Toward
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While Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a brutal dictator and should be tried at the Hague for international war crimes, the United States should not militarily overthrow him.
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Brutal
Dictator
Crimes
Hague
Overthrow
Syrian
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Both the Venezuelan and American people will be better served by a negotiated solution between Maduro and Guaido than by a conflict that leads to increased instability and violence.
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Conflict
Instability
Better People Will
American People
Increased
Leads
Solution
Served
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Do I think that if Google wanted to go acquire a competitor, another big company, we should say no? Of course. We shouldn't be approving them acquiring AT&T or Sprint or some big company.
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Acquire
Approving
Google
Sprint
Big Company
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Technology is amoral, but it requires humanistic values to steer it in a way that's empowering, and not detrimental to social progress. It's up to us to maximize the good and minimize the bad.
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Technology
Detrimental
Empowering
Humanistic
Social
Social Progress
Steer
Good Progress Bad
Amoral
Bad
Maximize
Minimize
Requires
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An Internet service provider reasonably needs to know your name and address. But it's hard to imagine why a provider would need to collect your Internet browsing habits other than to sell your data.
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Address
Collect
Habits
Provider
Reasonably
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One key question for the United States in the 21st century is whether noncoastal towns and rural communities, including many communities of color, will be able to participate in the digital revolution.
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Towns
Participate
Rural
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We needed overtime laws, we needed unionization, we needed to figure out how to distribute the Industrial Revolution's gains with equity, and we're going through something similar with the technology revolution.
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Equity
Gains
Distribute
Industrial
Overtime
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America has been a force for much good in the world. But we should learn from the mistakes of an over-expansionist foreign policy and return to the restraint that George Washington and John Quincy Adams advocated.
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Foreign Policy
Restraint
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My view is that we shouldn't be supplying the Saudis with arms while they're bombing civilians in Yemen and, by the way, while they're arming al-Qaida and it's fighting our own counterterrorist operations in Yemen.
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Arms
Bombing
Civilians
Operations
Yemen
Saudi
Supplying
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We should have companies required to get the consent of individuals before collecting their data, and we should have as individuals the right to know what's happening to our data and whether it's being transferred.
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Collecting
Consent
Data
Companies
Happening
Individuals
Required
Transferred
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As a lawyer, I can assure you that a lot of document drafting is repetitive, involving cutting and pasting from templates. But the best lawyers bring a unique perspective to the process and anticipate clients' problems.
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Anticipate
Clients
Cutting
Drafting
Involving
Repetitive
Assure
Document
Lawyers
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There's so many people who've built America, much greater in sacrifice and contributions than Silicon Valley. There are people who've died for this country. There are people who have marched for civil rights in this country.
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Civil Rights
Sacrifice
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Contributions
Country People America
So Many People
Valley
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I don't believe we would've had nearly as diverse a Congress if it weren't for social media. I don't think that there would be the same appreciation or empathy for human rights across the world if it weren't for social media.
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Appreciation
Diverse
Human Rights
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I think automation will eliminate certain types of jobs - lower income, lower-skilled jobs in manufacturing. But nobody knows whether it's going to change the job basket of the 21st century, or be net positive, or net negative.
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Automation
Manufacturing
Basket
Eliminate
Net
Types
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There's no doubt we need stronger antitrust enforcement. We shouldn't allow Amazon to privilege its own products on its platform, and we should make sure they're not using sellers' data, but the E.U. is not a model for America to copy.
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Antitrust
Enforcement
No Doubt
Sellers
Copy
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Of course it would be great to have more scientists in Congress. But what I'd love is to have another Lyndon Johnson in Congress who makes climate change his first priority. We need people who know how to work the system and the institution.
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Climate Change
Johnson
Love Change Work
Institution
Lyndon
Lyndon Johnson
Scientists
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We are very, very thoughtful about once an economic system creates maldistribution of wealth, thinking about how we redistribute it, but we need to pay attention to why that system is excluding people to create that maldistribution in the first place.
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Pay Attention
Thoughtful
Creates
Economic System
Excluding
First Place
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The structural changes of globalization and automation that has created concentrated wealth among some people who have had the right skills and the right opportunities has also created extraordinary disruption and havoc among the American middle-class.
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Automation
Disruption
Globalization
Havoc
Concentrated
Structural
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I think that when you look at our founding principles, it was based on America as a nation committed to universal human rights and a nation that was weary of foreign entanglements and foreign alliances that did not keep us safe or promote our interests.
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Founding
Human Rights
Weary
Alliance
Promote
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The Internet and virtual reality make it easier for people to stay rooted in their communities and work for companies headquartered elsewhere. The Internet has also created countless small businesses, triggering the creation of hundreds of thousands of new jobs.
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Jobs
Creation
Easier
Elsewhere
Internet
Rooted
Virtual Reality
Work Reality People
Businesses
Communities
Companies
Countless
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
New Jobs
Small Businesses
Thousands
Virtual
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One thing I want to do is get Silicon Valley to think harder about those who have been left behind by the technology revolution. It has created huge winners for those who are able to understand it and are adept at it. But it has also displaced a tremendous number of jobs.
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Adept
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Tremendous
Displaced
Valley
Winners
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Although the most advanced software innovation may take place in big cities with research universities, there is a lot of work concerning the application of software to business processes and the administration and maintenance of software systems that can be done remotely.
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Application
Big Cities
Innovation
Maintenance
Software
Work Business Done
Advanced
Concerning
Processes
Remotely
Research Universities
Systems
Universities
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For decades, I have watched neoconservatives paint those who oppose their interventionism as appeasers of dictators standing in solidarity with socialists, soft on Russia, naive about terrorism, lacking moral clarity and unappreciative of America's unique role in the world.
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Clarity
Decades
Lacking
Moral
Naive
Paint
Russia
Solidarity
Standing
Terrorism
Unique
Watched
Dictators
Oppose
Socialists
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My travels around the country have led me to believe that many communities want this diversity of opportunity. They're proud of the traditional industries, whether it's coal or steel, or of course doing military service, but they want their kids to have opportunities beyond that.
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Coal
Military Service
Steel
Industries
Travels
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Sometimes, in Silicon Valley, there is this attitude that we know best and we can change the world. The boldness allows us to invent the future. But, we need more empathy for those who are left behind and a recognition that Silicon Valley can't just call the shots and expect change.
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Boldness
Recognition
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Change The World
Invent
Valley
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We have to return to a foreign policy of restraint, one that develops our capabilities and our potential in communities across America, and not become bogged down in unwinnable conflicts that lead to greater resentment of the United States, and that don't advance American interests.
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Foreign Policy
Resentment
Restraint
Advance
American Interests
Bogged
Capabilities
Conflicts
Develops
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If we can figure out how to give more Americans a shot in tech, a shot at the ordinary jobs that don't necessarily afford rock star status or come with generous stock options but that can sustain middle-class life, then we might just take a step toward stitching our nation back together.
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Generous
Rock Star
Options
Tech
Status
Sustain
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I'm not an apologist for Iran's actions. Iran certainly has supported activities of terrorism, and the Houthis don't have clean hands. The Houthis have engaged in crimes too. But the idea that that justifies American involvement in a civil war in Yemen doesn't make any sense strategically.
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Civil War
Engaged
Involvement
Terrorism
Yemen
Activities
Crimes
Justifies
Strategically
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My grandfather, or Nana Ji, as we called him, was a family legend. Amarnath Vidyalankar spent his life fighting for India's independence, which included spending four years in prison in Mahatma Gandhi's movement. I still remember the conversations we had together, many of them while playing chess.
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Family
Independence
Chess
Fighting
Grandfather
Movement
Prison
Remember
Spending
Together
Years
Life Family Together
Conversations
Legend
Gandhi
Him
Included
Spent
While
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We have a choice in Silicon Valley. We can either continue to exist as an island to ourselves, focused on wealth creation and innovation... or we can understand that we are in the middle of a software revolution and answer the nation's call to provide economic opportunity and technology to places left behind.
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Creation
Innovation
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Software
Economic Opportunity
Island
Valley
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Silicon Valley is actually a prime target for an ICBM missile strike. It occurred to me as I has touring Apple Park that if I was concerned about Americans' safety and the symbol of America's future I would think that those is Silicon Valley as the most vulnerable. That's where you would be attacking the future economy.
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Safety
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Target
Apple
Missile
Occurred
Park
Strike
Symbol
Valley
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What makes the Amazon-Whole Foods deal so problematic is that they are going into an industry with large infrastructure, brick-and-mortar cost, and seeking to build consolidation where we already suffer from consolidation. It's not like Walmarts and Targets have been good for wages or local grocery stores or niche producers.
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Consolidation
Infrastructure
Niche
Producers
Seeking
Stores
Wages
Foods
Grocery
Problematic
Suffer
Targets
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The fruits of the economy and all the advantages of technology and globalization have gone far more to the investor class and the professional class and not as much to the working class. Partly because of the loss of labor unions, partly because of things like a lack of antitrust enforcement, policies that have privileged shareholder returns.
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Antitrust
Enforcement
Globalization
Labor
Privileged
Unions
Advantages
Fruits
Investor
Partly
Returns
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If you look across the economy, if you have multiple players in an industry, you have more customization, more innovation, greater choice for consumers. The more you have consolidation, the less likely you are to invest in innovation. It becomes all about driving down cost and mass production. And that's not good for innovation in an industry.
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Consolidation
Innovation
Mass
Mass Production
Multiple
Invest
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