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Quotes by Politician

"We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom."

"The American people have every right to be outraged with the administration's approval of the UAE port deal. It is time the people's House make the security of our Nation's ports a priority."

"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."

"America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it."

"It is my sincere hope that hospitals across Indiana, and America, continue to strive for excellence when it comes to providing medical care. This proposed rule will be harmful to communities who wish to upgrade their medical facilities."

"Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter."

"When I was a kid I use to put a puzzle together over and over until I got really good at it so one day I turned all the pieces upside down and built it, then I understood the true nature of the puzzle."

"President Bush has had an outstanding Secretary of State in Colin Powell and there are not many people who could replace him, making Condoleezza Rice an excellent choice."

"If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long."

"India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there."

"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."

"America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States."

"Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new."

"We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action."

"I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line."

"I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system."

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

"My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?"

"We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics."

"We're half the people; we should be half the Congress."

"I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people."

"The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of people who were, in one way or another, affected by the violence either directly or indirectly."

"Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations."

"I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs."

"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."

"In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development."

"Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance."

"We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you're game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation."

"Truly, the challenges we face are not Democratic challenges or Republican challenges. In fact, they are not political challenges at all; they are fiscal challenges, and educational challenges, and the challenges of figuring out how to take care of each other."

"To err is human. To blame someone else is politics."

"I did not do anything wrong as a governor, even if you accept the verdict as it is, it doesn't indicate that."

"The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values."

"I'm glad I made the decision, although the practice of law - and particularly serving as a federal judge - was a part of my life that I really enjoyed and treasured and look back on it with fondness."

"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."

"Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government."

"And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over."

"He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines."

"Biology includes the study of the human death which began when you took your first breath."

"It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act."

"We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago."

"To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes."

"Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed."

"In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave."

"You need a very, exceptionally clear vision. And to me, a vision is something that you can say in one sentence. The fewer the words the better."
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