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"Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."
"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."
"Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government."
"Here was this vast machinery of government and they didn't know how it ran, where you put in the gas, where you put in the oil, where you turn the throttle."
"The government serves the people - not vice-versa."
"I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people."
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"I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less."
"Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own."
"We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us."
"The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries."
"Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward."
"The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition."
"I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally."
"In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply."
"But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy."
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