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Quotes by Politician
"Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning."
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"Today, we can tell people we have a testing process and facilities in place on a nationwide basis."
10
"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."
10
"Make my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart does hold."
10
"Currently, most States do not recognize within their borders concealed carry permits issued in other States."
10
"As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring."
10
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
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"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."
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"Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk."
10
"I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power."
10
"We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation."
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"I'm not resigning, and I'm going to try very hard to go back to work a better man and a better husband too."
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"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last."
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"Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new."
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"Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil."
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"Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class."
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"For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure."
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"We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals."
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"I believe firmly in reconciliation among Vietnamese to avoid unnecessary shedding of the blood of Vietnamese."
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"The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be."
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"I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people."
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"Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care."
10
"We do thank our men and women in uniform. And I thank them. I thank this House today that approved a bill that will allow for a pay raise for our military. We are grateful for that and for the actions of this body."
10
"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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"A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous."
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"There can be no doubt that the transportation sector is the most critical sector of our economy."
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"I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis."
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"I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out."
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"With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve."
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"Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail."
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"Under Obama, our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a pen, abortion essentially became a U.S. foreign export."
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"Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists."
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"Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings."
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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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"Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards."
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"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
10
"Distrust and caution are the parents of security."
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"If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world."
10
"California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?"
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"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
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"There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance."
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"Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never."
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"Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it."
10
"You're feeling the responsibility for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on your shoulder in a way that I couldn't feel as lieutenant governor."
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"You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams."
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"You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight."
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"I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools."
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"Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge."
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