Or you can believe me when I say that it makes a difference.

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Believe me when I say to you, I hope the Russians love their children, too.

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And it is another, I guess, example of the distance that, unfortunately, you would expect me to say, but I think a lot of Americans believe -- unfortunately, the distance that the Republican Party has traveled here on so many issues.

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