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Quotes by Politician
"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."
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"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."
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"If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles."
8
"So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy."
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"But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?"
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"It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments."
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"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."
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"Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness."
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"Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind."
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"Specifically, I am concerned about the long-term condition of Social Security. I am committed to ensuring that current beneficiaries and those nearing retirement face no reduction in benefits, while preserving this vital program for future generations."
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"What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity."
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"New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party."
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"There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government."
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"Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they're 75."
8
"One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed."
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"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."
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"Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right."
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"When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward."
Will,
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"Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future."
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"But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA."
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"The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart."
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"There are lots of countries around that have weapons of mass destruction. We can't presumably attack them all."
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"The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail."
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"While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis."
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"Biology includes the study of the human death which began when you took your first breath."
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"I've been told by many the art of poetry's dead, I believe it's alive on pages they haven't read."
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"Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years."
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"If you were to climb up on your desk, walk around behind your monitor and lean way over so you could see the screen, you'd be able to read "Wordplay" just as easily as you could sitting in your chair."
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"With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits."
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"Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone."
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"Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't."
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"I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party."
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"There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race."
7
"Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?"
7
"We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago."
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"Keeping a lid on taxes is not just good for the taxpayer. It's a powerful way to force government to be more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter. Let me repeat that: more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter - that's what we need to be about."
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"We need to go everywhere. There is not one county in this state, I don't care how far west you go, that doesn't have Democrats. We have to be proud of who we are."
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"Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman."
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"The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century."
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"U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter."
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"The whole purpose was to say that it doesn't have to be a zero sum. It's not the environment or jobs. You can have both. You can help the auto industry achieve that if you have investment in plants."
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"The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man."
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"America's largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relations with the U.S. and ties its currency to the dollar to make it a more competitive trading partner."
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"Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do."
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"Our purpose is to be up here to resolve these issues. Our purpose is to be up here and represent the people."
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"Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better."
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"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."
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"We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom."
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