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Quotes by Politician

"Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered."

"Conservation of energy also protects our environment."

"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."

"We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children."


"Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability."

"Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work."

"They've participated extensively in this conference and they are doing their best to help."

"But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty."

"Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man."


"If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy."

"Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist."

"Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else."


"We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system."


"You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes."

"While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass."

"Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about."

"It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another."

"Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take."


"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."

"The advantage of working for a corporation is that it has only one message, because a product or a service doesn't speak; it's just there, and you can advertise it."

"Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around."

"Before you ever clasped your hands to pray God was already within your heart to stay."

"Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward."

"An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad."

"Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all."

"It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it."

"The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands."

"So I think that is one of the reasons we can face some regional problems, which are very difficult, very dramatic and is necessary to have instruments to solve these problems. NATO is such instrument."

"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."

"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."

"The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'."

"I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years."

"When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism."
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"However, this President sees no problem eliminating funding for Perkins Loans in his budget, even though the cost of tuition is rising and will continue to rise as the administration's policies force inflation."

"One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country."

"If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements."


"Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism."

"We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest."

"Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press."


"The establishment of a National Methamphetamine Prevention Week will significantly increase awareness of meth and educate the public on effective ways to help prevent its use."


"This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy."


"And then you might decide that the country can just spend maybe years or decades to regain that credit, or maybe give that county the support, the financial support that the market is not willing not do."

"It is during difficult times like this that the true American spirit reveals itself. I am not talking only of the response of local, state, and federal governments, although they will each play an extremely important role in this effort."

"It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region."

"By rejecting abortion-on-demand, we can move our party back to the mainstream."
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