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Quotes by Politician
"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."
28
"Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican."
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"Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering."
27
"Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest."
27
"China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks."
27
"Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous."
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"Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse."
27
"You know in the West they support realistic forces."
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"You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains."
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"The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
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"There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets."
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"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas."
27
"We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food."
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"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."
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"Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon."
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"The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States."
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"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
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"Freedom and Justice are twin sisters."
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"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
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"So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues."
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"Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy."
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"Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence."
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"Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country."
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"Alcohol's been keeping depression alive and well for over ten thousand years."
27
"I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party."
26
"All real education is the architecture of the soul."
26
"Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries."
26
"Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may."
26
"If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements."
26
"We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other."
26
"Your message is stupid. Iraq is not afraid of you or anyone else when it has a right to claim. What you warned about is not on Iraq's agenda. Iraq is vital and powerful. It is not an opportunistic country. Your administration has not learned from the past."
26
"We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility."
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"The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed."
26
"Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man."
26
"What people want is a seamless Web experience."
26
"My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career."
26
"If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase."
Tax,
26
"I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that."
26
"The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented."
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"The time has come to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' It is the right thing to do. Every American should have the opportunity to serve their country, regardless of race, sex, creed, or sexual orientation."
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"Never separate the life you live from the words you speak."
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"I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them."
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"I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it."
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