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Quotes by Politician
"Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract."
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"We are quite open, however, to looking at acquisitions and there are opportunities that we periodically consider. and I think that may be something we do in the future, but I must say that there is no commitment to that at the present time in any form or size."
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"Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike."
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"Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization."
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"For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford."
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"While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment."
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"I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle."
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"But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals."
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"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."
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"To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed."
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"If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description."
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"Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform."
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"Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems."
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"The same music is playing on the radio in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and Annapolis. Everywhere you go there's the same artists and same songs by them, over and over again. At some stations they play the same songs 50 to 60 times a week."
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"Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law."
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"Well, the tough thing for them is that the Republican primary is pretty far over to the right, just as the Democratic primary is further over to the left than the average voter in each party."
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"Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this."
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"I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything."
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"Medicaid is essentially bankrupt, Medicare is essentially bankrupt, why the heck would we give the federal government another entitlement program to manage?"
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"Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation."
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"Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution."
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"You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country."
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"God bless ladies with costly, tasteful clothes and touching, dirty fingernails that champion gifted, foreign poets and decorate the library in beautiful, melancholy fashion! My God, this universe is nothing to snicker at!"
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"There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season."
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"You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so."
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"The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated."
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"So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive."
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"It is my sincere hope that hospitals across Indiana, and America, continue to strive for excellence when it comes to providing medical care. This proposed rule will be harmful to communities who wish to upgrade their medical facilities."
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"Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community."
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"House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time."
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"I was heartened to hear the President say that as we make progress on the ground, and Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead, we should be able to further decrease our troop levels."
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"If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long."
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"I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed."
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"They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country."
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"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."
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"One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself."
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"The truth is that men are tired of liberty."
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"Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence."
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"I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve the issues. And I think that that's what the Tea Party was all about. It's getting back to a constitutional conservative government. And that is limited, but it's also effective and efficient. I think that that's what we'll be able to do."
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"There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism."
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"Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars."
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"We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration."
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"We have been waiting for you so that we could turn over the government."
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"No matter how bad your life gets if you Execute yourself it won't get better!"
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"Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living."
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