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Quotes by Politician
"Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime."
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"U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy."
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"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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"Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market."
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"The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq."
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"Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations."
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"The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that allows them to lawfully reside in this country."
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"Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity."
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"Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present."
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"There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back."
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"The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject."
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"I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision."
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"First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!"
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"Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services."
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"Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students."
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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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"Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are."
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"The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease."
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"It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish."
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"We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets."
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"There are a lot of personal things that take place when becoming governor and I am happy to work with him should he ask. I will give him the best advice I can give."
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"There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women."
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"Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon."
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"The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization."
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"Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients."
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"The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish."
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"If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments."
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"I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced."
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"Abortion on demand, throughout the full nine months of a pregnancy, for virtually any reason, became public policy in the United States of America. No other developed democracy had, or has, such a permissive abortion regime."
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"I'd say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you've lost your mind."
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"I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class."
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"While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis."
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"We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again."
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"A blue dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing to follow his party even when he knew it was wrong."
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"The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear."
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"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
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"We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers."
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"We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state."
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"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
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"When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare."
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"The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so."
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"The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future."
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"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."
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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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"I've never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters."
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"It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology."
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"There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late."
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