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Quotes by Politician
"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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"There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people."
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"I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in the camp in which I am in, one finds libraries, universities, the Internet industry, the manufacturers of digital media, and consumers."
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"We have stabilized our economy. We took over a very sick economy, and we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. We have stopped the hemorrhaging. In fact, we had 140,000 job growth last month. And that's what I call progress."
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"It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens."
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"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."
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"I'm tired of the whole anti gun thing. Saying that Guns cause Murders is like saying Steering Wheels cause car wrecks."
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"The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing."
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"The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans."
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"Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm."
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"I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."
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"Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?"
Hell,
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"You can bear your own faults and why not a fault in your wife?"
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"We live in an information and knowledge-based economy."
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"I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error."
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"That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom."
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"We are ready to train new Iraqi forces outside Iraq. We did it in Abu Dhabi."
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"You're feeling the responsibility for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on your shoulder in a way that I couldn't feel as lieutenant governor."
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"Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press."
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"You don't need to be for or against the war to provide morale and support to the men and women who are fighting over seas. These are human beings who are doing a service."
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"Well, our economy is very strong and growing. We have created 5.4 million new jobs in the last 3 years. Our unemployment rate is better than the average unemployment rate of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s."
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"A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot."
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"I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security."
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"I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides."
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"Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty."
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"With lab courses, we may be able to simulate a lot of that and reduce costs."
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"We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts."
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"Israel has always been and must always be America's strongest ally."
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"You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight."
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"Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined."
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"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."
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"The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise."
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"Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because of the sins of all men."
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"The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act expires at the end of this year. Thus, we must act quickly to ensure our constituents continue to receive the services they enjoy."
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"Mix a conviction with a man and something happens."
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"A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence."
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"The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse."
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"And preserving our open spaces or having them there for recreational purposes is one of the things that contributes to the high level of quality of life that we offer in Pennsylvania, and that also translates into economic benefits."
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"Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man."
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"Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows."
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"It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine."
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"You know, I'm a Republican, I'm a Conservative, I voted for George Bush."
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"When I'm out hustling up new industries, I can offer Louisiana's many selling points. We have unmatched natural resources, a unique culture and fantastic workers."
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