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Quotes by Politician
"Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort."
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"The Iraqi people are living better lives now than three year ago, no longer living in fear."
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"No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces."
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"Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget, an all-time low."
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"But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved."
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"Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot."
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"The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia."
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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 not involved in politics any more and they're quite right."
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"In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future."
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"All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream."
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"George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity."
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"Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war."
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"In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around."
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"That's my life in there. It would never be possible today to ask as many questions as I did."
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"Republicans are manufacturing a Social Security crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security."
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"We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country."
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"I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance program because there isn't enough support from Washington."
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"Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state; economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets."
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"This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic."
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"We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention."
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"The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence."
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"Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation."
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"Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people."
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"Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women."
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"Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience."
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"Iraq continues to be an immense disaster, and the President has no apparent plan for getting our troops out."
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"When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa."
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"If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail."
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"Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people."
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"That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust."
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"For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law."
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"We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics."
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"We've been working our tail off and lead by that example."
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"What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?"
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"We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances."
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"There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession."
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"The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable."
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"I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right."
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"Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to."
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"If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble."
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"It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle."
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"If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part."
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