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Quotes by Politician
"There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world."
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"I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."
30
"We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children."
30
"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."
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"I don't necessarily believe there's a message in the fact that I'm an African-American Republican. I think there is a message that America as a whole, we are now awake. We are looking at a political construct and we're fairly disappointed. I think the message is no matter where you come from in this country, there is great potential."
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"Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt."
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"With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year."
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"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."
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"Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect."
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"Our country is not in crisis; there are no tanks in the streets. No matter what the outcome of the president's situation, life in America will go on. Our lives will continue to be filled with practical matters, not constitutional ones."
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"I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it."
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"Europe cannot survive another world war."
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"It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true."
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"To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."
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"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
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"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
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"Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason."
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"The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building."
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"So I think that I can say, as the President of Poland, we're proud that I am coming from Poland, which is different and what's more important, much better than before."
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"I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty."
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"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."
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"The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider."
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"What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic."
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"Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help."
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"Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism."
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"On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died."
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"I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment."
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"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
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"It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better."
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"It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential."
28
"Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are."
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"I'm confident in our resolve to make the decisions necessary to keep our country and our people safe and prosperous and I look forward to representing the citizens of Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District for the next two years."
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"I believe politicians should always remain realistic."
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"We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice."
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"It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen."
28
"We are particularly interested in the mental health programs and policies that support our troops and their families before, during, and after deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan."
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"The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament."
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"We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system."
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"So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education."
28
"Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes."
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"The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope."
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"As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones."
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"It is not enough to receive support, no matter, how needed it may be. It is fundamental to know how to receive this support and ensure that its result is exponential."
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"You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest."
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"We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees."
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"A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail."
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"If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution; certainly would if such right were a vital one. But such is not our case."
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"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."
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