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All Quotes Collection
"As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas."
47
"As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge."
43
"And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings."
51
"You know, I come from six generations of college graduates."
30
"One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates."
63
"No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces."
53
"It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy."
39
"I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called to Louisiana. And they did a magnificent job."
51
"For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development."
45
"According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third."
41
"At a time when the insurgents are saying that time is working against them, my Democratic colleagues are introducing a measure to set a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq that will undercut the momentum that the insurgents themselves say we have built in Iraq."
33
"As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years."
39
"America demands invention and innovation to succeed."
42
"Washington should revive international efforts begun during the Clinton administration to pressure countries with dangerously loose banking regulations to adopt and enforce stricter rules."
39
"Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security."
42
"The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors."
43
"We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings."
50
"A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society."
47
"We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach."
213
"Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history."
51
"Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes."
176
"There is a need for more effective dialogue... between the government and the international community."
42
"If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better."
Will,
45
"If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding."
44
"The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights."
33
"The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars."
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