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Quotes by Politician
"I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House."
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"I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college."
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"There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state."
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"He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together."
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"After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America."
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"Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary."
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"There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty."
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"Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy."
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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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"Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting."
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"It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging."
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"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."
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"We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope."
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"Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy."
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"The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level."
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"In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die."
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"I have a great book. It's called Stantasyland. Except I don't have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list."
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"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
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"Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish."
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"In a valley betwixt two hills there I stood perfectly still. In this stance I did find the most beautiful secrets of my mind."
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"History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long."
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"The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime."
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"An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad."
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"The earth and its resources belong of right to its people."
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"Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness."
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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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"This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination."
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"A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave."
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"They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia."
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"In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps back."
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"Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight."
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"So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy."
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"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."
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"The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse."
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"I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time."
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"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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"The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power."
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"I think our voters have made it clear. Unless someone can demonstrate to me that having larger class sizes is better than having smaller class sizes, I'm not going to support it."
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"The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition."
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"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business."
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"Lincoln on Grant: "He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move."
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"None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing."
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"On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn."
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"It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."
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