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Arlen Specter

"As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt."

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"As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt."

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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

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"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

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"Our nation must come together to unite."

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"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

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"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."

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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."

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"Compared to the United States and certainly a lot of other countries around the world... per year, Australians do see more films."

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"Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country's well-being."

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"I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President."
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"The essence of a democracy is a free electorate."
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"If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong."
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"When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment."
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"Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding."
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"The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens."
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"If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine."
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"Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns."
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