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"Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed."
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"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."
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"I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country."
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"All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia."
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"If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed."
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"Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all."
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"The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever."
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"I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness."
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"In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment."
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"I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me."
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"If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country."
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"There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English market, and not to sink the price of British corn to the price in the continental market."
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"I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce."
Agriculture
"Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce."
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"So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced."
Famine
"It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country."
Country
"With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of our present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing."
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"Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries."
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"I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom."
Food
"Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports."
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"Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us."
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