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Quotes by Politician
"The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder."
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"I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve the issues. And I think that that's what the Tea Party was all about. It's getting back to a constitutional conservative government. And that is limited, but it's also effective and efficient. I think that that's what we'll be able to do."
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"Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward."
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"A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though."
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"He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make."
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"Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs."
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"You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go."
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"There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them."
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"One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed."
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"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
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"Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia."
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"I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness."
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"There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance."
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"The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water."
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"I am in suspense as to the probable or improbability of being called into the Army, a station I would prefer to any other that of being in arms to defend an injured and grossly insulted country."
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"Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure."
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"In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development."
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"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."
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"Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states."
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"The most heroic word in all languages is revolution."
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"I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research."
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"I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great nation."
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"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."
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"We are talking about predictable recurring flooding."
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"We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up."
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"You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can."
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"If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences."
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"Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books."
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"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."
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"I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons."
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"We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms."
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"Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything."
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"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
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"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."
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"All those trucks and barges that carry our goods to port are vital connections to the only force which can balance our trade deficit: export. We must keep doing what we do best if we are going to get America out of the red."
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"Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries."
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"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
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"His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web."
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"Don't criticize them, they are just what we would be under similar circumstances."
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"Your actions are catalysts to another's actions. One could last a second, another could last to the end of mankind. Share kindness, plant the seed, help humanity overcome their greed."
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"There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late."
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"I believe firmly in reconciliation among Vietnamese to avoid unnecessary shedding of the blood of Vietnamese."
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"Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration."
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"Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results."
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"A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous."
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