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"Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years."
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"You have what it takes to finish excellently if you strive toward it."
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Personal Development
"You tell me that yes, I can do it. I know. And I may do it, if I so choose.You tell me that no, I cannot. I say, Oh? I shall do it, since you refuse!"
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"If you love something, you find a way to have it in your life. Opposers may take away your means and tools, but you simply turn to crude replacements, fashioning them from scraps if necessary. Threats only make you steal moments of secrecy to satisfy your love. And if it means but a morsel here and there, you accept each crumb gladly because nothing else can even begin to satisfy your hunger."
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Personal Development
"Water drops erode mountains not because of their size, but their persistence."
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Personal Development
"Their doubt is your fuel for dreams. You just have to drive."
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Personal Development
"When you confront, you get goals faster."
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Personal Development
"Crying will achieve nothing. Only action will."
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"Impossible is what you say to yourself when you have given up."
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Personal Development
"When reaching for the stars, beware of those who want to cut off your hands."
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Personal Development
"Do not fixate on the odds against you but on victory ahead of you."
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"This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do."
Promise
"Over the last five years, the Administration and the majority in Congress have appropriated less than $900 million for port security grants - despite the Coast Guard's determination that $5.4 billion is needed over 10 years."
Determination
"In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security."
Defence
"Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that."
Education
"Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow."
People
"While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good."
Power
"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."
Challenge
"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."
Equality
"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."
Work
"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."
Health
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