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Quotes by Politician
"Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians."
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"In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies."
7
"Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?"
7
"Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate."
7
"The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible."
7
"We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget."
7
"In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War."
7
"It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage."
7
"WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States."
7
"Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included."
7
"The Round-Up is a wonderful community celebration, and I greatly enjoy the chance to visit with residents and see so many families enjoying the festivities offered throughout the week."
7
"From its earliest days, stem cell research has been important to the people of Wisconsin."
7
"We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise."
7
"I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one."
7
"The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state."
7
"The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful."
7
"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."
7
"It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government."
7
"Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered."
7
"When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it."
7
"Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything."
7
"The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour."
7
"We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it."
7
"The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them."
7
"In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone."
7
"All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly."
7
"I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations."
7
"What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two."
7
"I have directed all of my cabinet to work to prepare a transition plan for the incoming administration."
Work,
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"I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs."
7
"The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government."
7
"Of the fellows least likely to be president, you'd have to vote Jack No. 1."
7
"The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague."
7
"It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured."
7
"We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world."
7
"Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?"
7
"I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office."
7
"We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy."
7
"The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists."
7
"On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed."
7
"I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there."
7
"Education is the investment our generation makes in the future."
7
"The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not buying cars. I don't care whether they're or American cars, or international cars."
7
"In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root."
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"If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments."
7
"Small businesses are seeing huge rate increases every year, and more and more of them are saying they just can't afford to provide coverage. That's part of the reason more than 45 million Americans are now uninsured."
7
"The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms."
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"Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous."
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