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Quotes by Politician
"I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants."
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"Fools make feasts and wise men eat them."
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"If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end."
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"I've never had a penny through oil deals and no one has produced a shred of evidence that I have."
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"The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected."
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"I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns."
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"Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they're 75."
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"Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble."
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"My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met."
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"We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses."
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"One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible."
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"I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done."
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"The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face. They are cowards."
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"In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice."
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"You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure."
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"You're feeling the responsibility for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on your shoulder in a way that I couldn't feel as lieutenant governor."
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"I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning."
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"The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century."
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"When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption."
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"The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs."
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"Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love."
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"How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution."
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"You know, I'm a Republican, I'm a Conservative, I voted for George Bush."
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"When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years."
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"Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses."
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"I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it."
Risk,
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"Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries."
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"We ought to disarm Germany completely."
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"Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind."
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"Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely."
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"The attractive lady whom I had only recently been introduced to dropped into my lap... I chose not to dump her off."
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"We didn't do anything wrong... Some are frustrated that we did it this way."
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"Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn't need to be explained to everyday Americans."
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"My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance."
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"I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts."
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"While American taxes pay for much of the research and development that goes into creating the new, life-saving drugs, American consumers continue to subsidize the cost of the drugs for consumers across the world."
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"Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live."
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"And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes."
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"The agreement to place the binational planning group at our new Northern Command was also signed in December."
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"I am in suspense as to the probable or improbability of being called into the Army, a station I would prefer to any other that of being in arms to defend an injured and grossly insulted country."
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"We don't have a lot of Reagan-type leaders in our party. Remember Ronald Reagan Democrats? I want a Republican that can attract Democrats."
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"Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill."
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"The bottom line to this is, there are few doctors who have any expertise in chemical exposure."
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"I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music."
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"As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects."
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