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Quotes by Politician
"Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic."
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"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."
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"It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax."
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"In 2003, this House voted to kill a Democratic amendment to add $250 million for port security grants; then again, in 2005, against a Democratic proposal calling for an additional $400 million in funding for port security."
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"There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system."
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"One today is worth two tomorrows."
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"After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?"
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"Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners."
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"The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control."
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"Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation."
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"Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor."
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"My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then."
Work,
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"The bottom line is that the CIA knew before the war, during and war, and after the war where most of these chemicals were and most of these biological agents."
War,
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"Not only should we be giving Amtrak the money it needs to continue to provide services; we should be providing security money to upgrade their tracks and improve safety and security measures in the entire rail system."
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"Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education."
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"My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive."
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"As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people."
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"This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it."
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"There could have been more planning in New Orleans, but you look at all the devastation that happened there - have we gotten to 3,000 deaths yet? For that magnitude of a disaster, that's not all that bad."
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"War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures."
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"Each and every Notary Public plays a crucial role in combating identity theft. They serve as our front line of defense and the public is safer because of the job they do."
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"Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self."
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"It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage."
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"My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more."
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"Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision."
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"I'm not a politician. I'm not a lawyer. I'm just a country boy."
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"I want to make it clear publicly that I expect more candor from this Administration during the next four years, particularly with members on the Foreign Relations Committee so that we can maintain a bipartisan foreign policy."
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"I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations."
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"There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high."
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"I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest."
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"But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been."
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"Luckily, I'm a governor - so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do."
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"I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack."
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"The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games."
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"The president's budget request today demonstrates his unwillingness to come clean on the true costs of his agenda. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter."
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"I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office."
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"I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle."
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"The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand."
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"The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything."
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"I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair."
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"If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description."
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"We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy."
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"It's easier to run for office than to run the office."
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"Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer."
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"It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked."
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"The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right."
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"I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots."
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"Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws."
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