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Quotes by Politician
"I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not."
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"Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities."
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"One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it."
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"Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down."
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"It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands."
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"I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability."
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"Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny."
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"One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate."
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"But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism."
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"Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped."
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"You've had some terrific print information that gets everybody's attention in this town."
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"As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry."
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"Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance."
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"Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world."
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"It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool."
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"Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment."
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"Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism."
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"Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind."
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"A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people."
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"I'm concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. There's no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild."
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"Second, the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security."
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"The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare."
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"I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago."
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"I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head."
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"Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open."
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"That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly."
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"In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil."
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"Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin."
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"The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers."
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"I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one."
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"The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade."
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"When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement."
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"Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old."
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"The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use."
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"I support non-discrimination for homosexuals, but I think, or at least I have the right to think - without saying whether I think it or not - I have the right to think, along with the catechism of the Catholic Church, that homosexuality is morally wrong."
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"In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care."
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"We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators."
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"True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion."
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"The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral."
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"Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation."
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"None of us are nuclear experts, but we know that if there is a melt-down and breach of containment, that's clearly the most odious thing that could happen."
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"Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well."
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"Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation."
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"It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans."
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"The voters reward good performance. So, I'm going to go out and focus, if I become the governor, to do the very best job I can as governor. The rest of it will take care of itself."
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"Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live."
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"Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity."
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