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"I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area."
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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
"Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown."
"Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows."
"As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars."
"If you look at the fact that the best chance we have for a good economy is the private sector. The government cannot create jobs. If the government could create jobs, then Communism would have worked. But didn't work. So what we have to do is allow the private sector and the entrepreneurial spirit to lead us back to a job-filled recovery."
"When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying."
"Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all."
"Government has no other end, but the preservation of property."
"Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay."
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"I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class."
"I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities."
"My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do."
"I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people."
"The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back."
"Even six months later, they have not figured out how do we help the people from the area get housing."
"If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress."
"I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf."
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