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Quotes by Politician

"What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?"

"Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture."

"Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families."

"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."

"Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you."

"Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society."

"We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people."

"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."

"Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S."

"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."

"Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development."

"I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that."

"Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them."

"Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire."

"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."

"I think the first duty of society is justice."

"If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long."

"The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people."

"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."

"The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined."

"We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus."

"I know supposedly God has anger, vengeance, and wrath, and if he doesn't have a sense of humor I'm in big trouble!"

"Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall."

"God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men."

"Businesses must invest in products and people in order to create new wealth."

"Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber."

"We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish."

"My quotes are being used in other authors creations. To be recognized while I'm alive has surpassed my expectations."

"A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode."

"In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded."

"I'll admit it I'm on acid: uric acid! It makes my gout hurt like hell, but the foods I eat are so damn well."

"Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character."

"I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links."

"When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications."

"On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been."

"There is no reason to repeat bad history."

"Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around."

"The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress."

"It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace."

"Why do they always prescribe thyroid medicine to go with the mental illness cocktails they whip up?"

"When you read my poems or quotes remember you're stepping into the mind that steps outside of me."

"I have confidence in people's basic common sense."

"Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20."
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