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Quotes by Politician

"The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India."

"We have lost all our big Australian industries and icons, including Qantas when it sold 25 % of its shares and a controlling interest to British Airways."

"I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters."

"It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them."


"If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports."

"A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems."

"Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University."

"Every day, first responders put their own lives on the line to ensure our safety. The least we can do is make sure they have the tools to protect and serve their communities."


"The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year."

"One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you."

"I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name."


"Since Social Security faces a large gap between what it promises younger workers and what it can afford to pay them, private savings will likely need to play a larger role in retirement planning for younger workers."


"Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled."

"I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag."

"We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing."


"Some may seek revenge, but this is not our policy."

"And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it."


"I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities."

"Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen."

"While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant."

"There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag."

"The United States transportation system is the envy of the world."

"International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights."

"Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught."

"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."

"As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants."

"It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse."


"It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."
Life,

"Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively."


"A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under."

"Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate."

"Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling."

"I very much regret that our administration has pushed the whole issue of Kosovo to the back burner."


"There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee... This was all stuff that was previously known."

"Each and every Notary Public plays a crucial role in combating identity theft. They serve as our front line of defense and the public is safer because of the job they do."


"The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations."

"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."

"What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?"

"We can't just throw a switch and say Indian Point is going to be safe, we have to look long-term because it will ultimately be decommissioned and we have to work aggressively now to bring in new sources of power."

"Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision."


"The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no."

"Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school."

"There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high."
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