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Quotes by Politician
"I've got to that point in life when there's very few thrills and lots of pills seems we all end up this way. As we wait for our final day. But there's one thing about the pills I take. My manic episodes have taken a break."
14
"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
14
"The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power."
14
"I will work for energy policies that recognize oil won't last forever."
14
"We do not have a budget support. We are now fully independent in terms of requirements, but we still have a need for development assistance separate from the budget. So all the economic aid we receive is for development assistance."
13
"In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave."
13
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."
13
"The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually."
13
"I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence."
13
"I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged."
13
"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."
13
"It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential."
13
"After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?"
13
"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."
13
"It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."
Life,
13
"The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution."
13
"I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success."
13
"We do have some assistance from the World Bank but not from the IMF. We are not borrowing yet, but we are considering, in the future, borrowing from the Kuwait Fund to support our infrastructure development."
13
"If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live."
13
"There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age."
13
"In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization."
13
"The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented."
13
"The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand."
13
"Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge."
13
"The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills."
13
"At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else."
13
"Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed."
13
"Freedom and Justice are twin sisters."
13
"I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized."
13
"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business."
13
"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency."
13
"I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line."
13
"There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late."
13
"The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation."
13
"Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy."
13
"There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction."
13
"If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of."
Car,
13
"Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results."
13
"In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development."
13
"I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time."
13
"I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns."
13
"We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios - right now in US Treasury Bonds."
13
"The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans."
13
"It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."
12
"Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society."
12
"All real education is the architecture of the soul."
12
"It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction."
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