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Quotes by Politician
"How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case."
Rest,
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"It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another."
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"Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world."
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"I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized."
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"The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now."
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"Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did."
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"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
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"To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own."
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"Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home."
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"Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth."
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"We use a lot of source music on some shows and none on others."
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"The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation."
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"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."
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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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"If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary."
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"If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself."
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"Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions."
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"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks."
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"When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward."
Will,
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"I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be."
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"Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them."
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"A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert."
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"Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better."
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"I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world."
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"We will liberate our country from the occupying forces and put an end to relations between Russia and the Chechen State, no matter how difficult the task may be."
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"Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives."
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"I want all the interested parties to come together and develop a solution that provides additional water and helps the lower Arkansas River communities thrive again."
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"It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it."
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"It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction."
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"I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual."
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"But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism."
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"Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped."
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"She walks well, she looks good. Let's see how she kisses."
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"Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on."
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"He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense."
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"There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong."
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"What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor."
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"Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population."
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"You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process."
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"Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger."
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"If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is."
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"The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled."
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"Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management."
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"For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making."
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"American power worldwide is at its historic zenith."
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"I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service."
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