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Quotes by Politician

"Your actions are catalysts to another's actions. One could last a second, another could last to the end of mankind. Share kindness, plant the seed, help humanity overcome their greed."

"Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything."


"The tone did take on a negativity that I didn't like and when you make the decision to go the other way as we did it very directly had an impact, you can see it with the tracking."

"As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed."

"If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right."

"We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics."


"Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?"

"Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors' annual medical expenses."

"The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them."


"A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though."

"Working together we can strengthen Delaware State University and the students who attend it."


"I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they're always being perverty when I'm around."

"There can be no doubt that the transportation sector is the most critical sector of our economy."


"Arizona's forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona."

"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."


"Under Obama, our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a pen, abortion essentially became a U.S. foreign export."

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."

"There never was a good war or a bad peace."

"With such compelling information, the question is why haven't we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry."

"One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact."

"Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear."


"It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act."

"Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?"

"To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes."


"By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country."

"Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge."

"We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing."

"The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day."

"The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had transformed much of the upper Estuary watershed."


"Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men."

"I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do."

"It was fairly obvious to anyone who studied the situation that China was dumping bedroom furniture in the U.S. to the detriment of our American workers and manufacturers to gain market access and share."

"It's not important to me to found a school; it's not important to me to have disciples."

"Immigration is not just compatible with but is a necessary component of economic growth."

"Our all-volunteer force continues to prove itself with a great level of professionalism, personal commitment and a technical competence that is quite remarkable."


"Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may."

"We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other."

"No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states."

"France has a very important relationship with Germany. But that does not mean that we agree about everything or that two of our universities or companies are not going to compete."

"Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well."

"To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time."

"There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it."

"Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally."

"Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death."
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