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"To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater."
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"If you participate in a competition, you have a chance to lose. If you don't participate, you are already a loser."

"How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast."

"It takes physical, spiritual and mental preparation to overcome the life challenges."

"If you escape from a necessary fight, pray you will live long enough to wait for and deal with the same challenge that must be settled."

"One who takes the road less traveled earns the rewards most missed."

"The height of your storm determines the height of your rainbow."

"It was rather difficult to throw a game when you had no idea what you were doing to win it in the first place."
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"When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s."

"As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees."

"I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects."

"The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve."

"For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue."

"Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled."

"This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy."

"In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties."

"To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served."

"Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities."
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