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All Quotes Collection
"The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected."
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"The fact is that America relies on Amtrak to move people."
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"A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems."
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"Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race."
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"While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day."
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"It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible."
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"Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others."
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"In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age."
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"In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island."
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"In addition to joblessness, of course, by the working of supply and demand, when you have a larger number of people unemployed, wages do not rise at the normal level, so that we had last year a drop in real wages."
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"However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise as the administration's policies force inflation."
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"Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy."
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"Foreign trade clearly has been a reason why inflation has been low."
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"For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have."
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"As a personal beneficiary of the service that Amtrak provides and as someone who represents a congressional district that counts on safe, reliable rail service, I am a strong supporter of providing this vital industry the funding necessary to continue operations."
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"Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country."
47
"Real economic stimulus comes from real investment."
62
"We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated."
40
"With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half."
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"Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression."
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"There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America."
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"The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia."
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"No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing."
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"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied."
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"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."
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"I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring."
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"Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness."
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"An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts."
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"A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward."
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"A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment."
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"This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer."
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"Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?"
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"The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants."
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