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Quotes by Politician
"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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"That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law."
66
"I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer."
65
"With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year."
65
"I am bitterly opposed to my country entering the war, but if, notwithstanding my opposition, we do enter it, all of my energy and all of my power will be behind our flag in carrying it on to victory."
65
"Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed."
65
"Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue."
65
"Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse."
65
"You know in the West they support realistic forces."
65
"When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis."
65
"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."
65
"You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains."
65
"Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best."
65
"This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good."
65
"I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war."
65
"This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job."
65
"The most heroic word in all languages is revolution."
65
"The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap."
Past,
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"I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's all the spending, it's all the debt. It's their national energy tax, they want to call it cap and trade - more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. Their healthcare bill - more mandates, higher costs, higher taxes."
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"It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true."
65
"The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms."
65
"Working in an underdeveloped land for two or three years, the volunteer will often find that his work is routine and full of frustration."
65
"The American flag is the most recognized symbol of freedom and democracy in the world."
65
"I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion."
65
"I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan."
65
"We can play politics, or we can reduce crime."
65
"Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal."
65
"All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction."
65
"So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues."
65
"To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions."
65
"Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble."
65
"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."
65
"We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children."
65
"He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make."
65
"When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast."
65
"I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views."
65
"I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning."
65
"Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents."
65
"We have stabilized our economy. We took over a very sick economy, and we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. We have stopped the hemorrhaging. In fact, we had 140,000 job growth last month. And that's what I call progress."
65
"I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be."
65
"Our relations with brothers in Gulf Cooperation council are good and developing, either bilateral relations or with the G.C.C itself, also we have good brotherly and solid ties with Saudi Arabia."
64
"I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides."
64
"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."
64
"Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 17 million constituents."
64
"It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic."
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