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Quotes by Politician
"But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been."
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"I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else's. I'm sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It's disgusting."
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"The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart."
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"I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack."
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"It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers."
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"When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done."
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"There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch."
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"Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive."
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"We are all members of a single humanity, inside our hearts we all speak the same language, we all love our children and our parents, we all live in the same world."
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"I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process."
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"Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice."
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"I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press."
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"Foreign trade clearly has been a reason why inflation has been low."
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"One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us."
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"My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband."
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"I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations."
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"We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us."
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"A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision."
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"The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back."
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"Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world."
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"I am convinced that China needs to be a strong trading partner with the United States long term."
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"Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever."
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"What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted."
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"China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets."
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"A recent survey conducted by the University of Minnesota concluded that meth was involved in as many as 81 percent of child protection cases in the state."
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"But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world."
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"Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them."
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"Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war."
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"Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities."
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"We believe we've got the skill base and the techniques to supply the chips that really enable the end manufacturers to develop exciting, innovative products themselves."
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"The bottom line is, winter navigation on the Seaway is a bad idea."
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"Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes."
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"The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be."
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"If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation."
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"The CAFTA region currently imports $15 billion annually of U.S. agriculture and manufactured goods."
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"The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened."
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"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
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"That's depressing, when somebody says "please" to you."
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"I don't necessarily believe there's a message in the fact that I'm an African-American Republican. I think there is a message that America as a whole, we are now awake. We are looking at a political construct and we're fairly disappointed. I think the message is no matter where you come from in this country, there is great potential."
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"The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent."
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"The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform."
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"There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people."
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"Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later."
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"I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way."
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"As a former cop, I respect and appreciate those who've dedicated their lives to serving others as well as those who appreciate the rule of law and honor it."
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"And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over."
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"We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars."
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