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"In subsequent years the groups you named had important roles in educating people about the real issues in Washington and Raleigh, and within the Democratic Party."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."

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"Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education."

"That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage."

"I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!"

"The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble."

"I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him."

"I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed."

"I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work."

"We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support."

"We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery."

"The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study."
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