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Quotes by Politician

"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."

"Make sure your Belief system leaves room for you to Be Life!"

"Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need."

"The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses."

"I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting."

"Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions."


"The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime."

"Look, the president is elected to lead and to face the country's biggest challenges. The country's biggest challenge domestically speaking, no doubt about it, is a debt crisis, and I'm really hoping that he is going to give us a budget that tackles this debt crisis."

"Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops."

"I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling."

"Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?"

"Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow."

"The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform."

"We're not going to take this sitting down. We are fighting back."

"The best self help book I've ever read was, The little Engine that Could."

"99 % of the reason a person doesn't do something are 100% correct."

"The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?"


"We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us."

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

"I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates."

"I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself."

"McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth."

"We have been waiting for you so that we could turn over the government."

"So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you."

"Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges."

"137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy."

"No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages."

"When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up."

"The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands."

"We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building."

"From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy."

"We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge."

"If I could catch a Star and hold it in my hand. I would illuminate those whose life is not so grand."


"We've been probably to some degree too successful."

"Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them."

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."

"Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism."

"No matter how bad your life gets if you Execute yourself it won't get better!"

"Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders."

"There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force."

"All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same."

"I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war."
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