"What we don't want is that we promise something that we can't deliver, " Ms. Merkel said.
"We made them a promise that we would make this company a great investment for them, " he recalls.
But we cannot realize that promise if we allow the hum of our prosperity to lull us into complacency.
How do we reclaim that central American promise that no matter who you are, you can make it here if you try?
Four years ago, I promised to cut taxes for families like yours, for middle-class families -- we kept that promise.
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And we renew our promise that the United States will be a partner to any nation, large or small, that will contribute to a world that is more peaceful and more prosperous, more just and more free.
We wrote that promise into our Constitution.
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And I think in time they'll understand the technology, and if we deliver the promise on the software that we'll get where we want to be.
And we promised - and I repeated that promise here in this programme some years ago - that we would get extra investment and reform into the National Health Service.
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If we felt that he had done wrong I promise you we would except the punishment given because we believe that justice should be served but I am sorry you have this story backwards.
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That's the promise we're called to fulfill. (Applause.) Day by day, law by law, changing mind by mind, that is the promise we are fulfilling.
We want all of our kids to have opportunities worthy of their promise, because we know that all of our kids are worthy.
We want to give all of our children opportunities worthy of their promise, because we know that all of our children are worthy.
We want to give all of our children opportunities worthy of their promise, because we know that all of our kids are worthy -- opportunities to fulfill every last bit of their God-given potential.
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"At CES last year, we introduced ourselves to the US market, promising that we would make significant progress within the year, and we have delivered on that promise with new customers, innovative new capabilities and the most flexible and commercially attractive payment platforms available today, " said Stephen Petheram, Marketing Director at PayWizard.
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You didn't quite promise that we would not as a country be part of the bailout.
"I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America, and we believed in that promise, " the 59-year-old Chicago native said.
Of course, as we meet here today, one year later, we know the promise of that moment has not yet been fully fulfilled.
Naturally, we can't promise that they will all do as well in the future--for a more forward-looking analysis, check the annual A-List of top companies that we published in April.
"I had campaigned on the promise that we are one Tulsa and all the divisions we had in the past, we need to throw away, " Mayor Dewey Bartlett Jr. said in an interview Sunday.
We decreased stress by making sure that we always kept our promise to provide leads and all the other things a sales rep needs to do his job.
When an individual, company or government has a good credit rating, we are saying that we trust they will keep their promise to pay off their debts in the future.
When we went on this tour we saw an awful lot of problems and we saw a lot of promise, enough promise to convince us all that we actually can succeed in building a bridge to the 21st century that all Americans can walk across.
Our promise is that we will make every effort for what is best for the nation.
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And tonight, tonight I'd like to talk about how together we can deliver on that promise.
"I want to promise you that we will change Kenya for the better, " Mr Kenyatta told them.
We may have different opinions, but we believe in the same promise that says this is a place where you can make it if you try.
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