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"Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture."


"It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters."


"As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own."


"An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems."


"I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful."


"Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit."


"The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good."
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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

"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."

"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."

"This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest."

"This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much."

"It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book."

"As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells."

"I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country."
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