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Quotes by Politician
"To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends."
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"Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance."
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"Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C."
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"We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces - or at the very least a plan for it - something the administration has incredulously failed to do for over two years."
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"Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand."
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"The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America."
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"For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make."
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"I have lived through many major hurricanes during my lifetime: Camille, Frederic, and Ivan, to name just a very few. However, never have I seen destruction, panic, and fear on this massive scale."
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"Thirdly, as we move through this process of integrating the communications, we will begin to emulate more of the World Wide Web in our work in the future."
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"I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great."
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"I know supposedly God has anger, vengeance, and wrath, and if he doesn't have a sense of humor I'm in big trouble!"
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"I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed."
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"One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements."
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"My quotes are being used in other authors creations. To be recognized while I'm alive has surpassed my expectations."
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"If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail."
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"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down."
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"Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits."
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"Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil."
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"Why do they always prescribe thyroid medicine to go with the mental illness cocktails they whip up?"
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"The truth is that men are tired of liberty."
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"Important principles may, and must, be inflexible."
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"I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting."
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"I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling."
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"As the governor of this state, I obviously see the issue quite differently."
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"We're trying to get to the bottom of where the picture came from, and we're trying to get to the bottom of what it's of and who it's of."
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"When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will we see that we were here!"
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"And I'm very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election."
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"We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals."
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"In a post-9/11 world, diversity has become even more important."
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"There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction."
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"You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn."
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"While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
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"I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also."
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"I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down."
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"Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all."
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"You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that."
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"Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology."
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"I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals."
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"I'm carrying so much pork, I'm beginning to get trichinosis."
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"When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast."
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"An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth."
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"When I started out, I preferred to watch my films without music, as its presence tends to mask the underlying pace of the film. I felt I could feel the rhythm of the film better without music to influence me."
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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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"We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq."
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"Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings."
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"Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible."
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"People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world."
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