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Quotes by Politician
"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."
73
"Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter."
73
"It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds."
73
"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
73
"It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings related to cost-sharing of some services and staff."
73
"Why can't we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable, built at higher densities than they are at the moment and built on brownfield sites."
73
"I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom."
73
"Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness."
73
"Don't criticize them, they are just what we would be under similar circumstances."
73
"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
73
"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."
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73
"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
73
"They stayed by my side the whole time - my teammates, family and all the fans."
73
"That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom."
73
"In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy."
72
"National isolation breeds national neurosis."
72
"In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law."
72
"Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me."
72
"Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!"
72
"The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled."
72
"The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed."
72
"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."
72
"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."
72
"The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament."
72
"I believe that as a nation we must have a bipartisan discussion about how to best preserve and protect Social Security for our seniors and for future generations of Americans."
72
"I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us... they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force."
72
"Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected?"
72
"But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most."
72
"I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress."
72
"Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement."
72
"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
72
"To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own."
72
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
72
"What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?"
72
"Today, we say the only thing we have to fear is four more years of George Bush."
72
"One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed."
72
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great."
71
"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money."
71
"Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty."
71
"There is not an alternative to the US as the engine for growth."
71
"In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development."
71
"Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy."
71
"The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made."
71
"That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer."
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