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Quotes by Politician
"For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away."
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"The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government."
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"Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries."
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"We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less."
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"I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention."
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"It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to."
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"Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship."
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"I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district."
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"I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway."
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"The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full."
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"Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests."
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"Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before."
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"We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone."
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"My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States."
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"Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads."
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"The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible."
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"I mean the fact is that some of this information that we have found out that led to Usama bin Laden actually came from these enhanced interrogation techniques."
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"It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration."
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"I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work."
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"These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea."
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"Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war."
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"Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C."
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"Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries."
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"However, in recent years our nation has seen a sizable influx of illegal immigration that at best highlights some alarming inadequacies and at worst indicates a broken system."
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"The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending."
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"In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not only is Saddam Hussein gone, but Qaddafi has given up his weapons of mass destruction and tremendous progress is being made in Iraq."
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"If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination."
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"Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways."
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"What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?"
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"Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture."
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"Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families."
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"Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet."
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"Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent."
7
"Everybody would love to be mayor of Chicago. If you look at what we have done over many, many years and where we are today and the commitment by the business community, the commitment by the not-for-profit community - all this coming together - this is a wonderful city."
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"The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities."
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"I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed."
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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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"If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you."
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"Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society."
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"We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people."
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"Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man."
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"Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S."
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"Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on."
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