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Quotes by Politician
"The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning."
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"Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration."
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"Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody."
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"Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic."
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"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."
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"We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq."
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"Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances."
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"I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism."
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"There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them."
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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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"This issue, if not addressed, leaves any President, including George Bush, open to the criticism that they are essentially ignoring the destruction of the nation and I believe that with all my heart."
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"I grew up at 16 years old driving trucks across the George Washington Bridge."
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"We live in an information and knowledge-based economy."
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"Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never."
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"Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged."
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"Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job."
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"All real education is the architecture of the soul."
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"In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde."
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"We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada."
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"All the action, in semiconductors at the present time is in the new consumer applications, and that's where we have focused our activities since we started doing our own products in the late '90s."
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"I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us."
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"But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania."
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"It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office."
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"I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence."
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"A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth."
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"The problem remains that the market is grossly distorted by Canadian unfair trade practices."
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"The time is now for Congress to address health care in America."
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"True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us."
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"In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will."
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"I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner."
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"Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests."
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"The Bible has done more harm than any other book in the world."
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"I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations."
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"The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland."
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"In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer."
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"I came here to help make America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation, promotes cleaner technologies, encourages development of renewables and enhances domestic production of gas and oil."
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"I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John."
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"Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful."
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"I came to Congress to help reduce spending."
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"As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world."
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"We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past."
Past,
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"You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process."
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"My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling."
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"It's not just a hurricane. It's the demand for gas in China... We're paying $3 a gallon, and the oil companies are making historic profits every quarter."
Oil,
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"In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country."
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"We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel."
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