"When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention."

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"When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention."

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"What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful."

Sandra Day O'Connor, American Judge

Attention, First, Media, Press

"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory."

Richard Whately, English Writer

Attention, Curiosity, Memory

"It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths."

Jean Rostand, French Scientist

Attention, Error

"Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course."

Theodore C. Sorensen, American Lawyer

Attention, Destruction, Earth, Global warming

"The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster."

Georg Brandes, Danish Critic

Attention,

"Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives."

Cole Younger, American Criminal

Attention, Will

"I think the killers get far too much attention."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky."

Paul Nurse, British Scientist

Attention, Sky, Stars, Winter

"We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could."

William Graham Sumner, American Businessman

Attention, Question

"I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic."

Jimmy Fallon, American Comedian

Attention, Being

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"John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign."

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"The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin."

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"If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws."

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"George Bush is trying to play it both ways."

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"When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are."

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"What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university."

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"George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters."

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"The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work."

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"In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history."

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"I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them."

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