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Quotes by Politician
"Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission."
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"The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble."
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"I'm here to tell you the coffee was hot, the orange juice was cold, New York's still there and Reagan National is back."
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"The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives."
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"The only thing I shall talk about is my sporting achievements at school. My primary sporting achievement at school was that I dodged games for two complete years and was well through the third year before they discovered that I had completely avoided all games."
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"It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success."
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"Americans pay up to 1000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic."
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"When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys."
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"We have a VA hospital back home in St. Louis. Like many of our colleagues, we hear continued concerns about the access and the service. I have seen a statistic that more than 60,000 veterans today are waiting more than 6 months for an appointment at a VA hospital."
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"Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'"
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"The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it."
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"The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented."
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"It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain."
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"Whether you are from Minnesota, Wisconsin or any other Northern tier state, you are not going to like the reimbursement formula. The problem we face is that we wouldn't have that formula if a majority of the states didn't like it, and they have the majority of the votes."
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"Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are... Sex is something I just don't understand. I swear to God."
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"In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened."
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"I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation."
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"We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past."
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"Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster."
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"The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us."
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"Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning."
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"We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance."
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"All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise."
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"I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood."
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"The core value that differentiates Apple is our ability to innovate."
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"You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done."
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"This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural."
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"The time has come to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' It is the right thing to do. Every American should have the opportunity to serve their country, regardless of race, sex, creed, or sexual orientation."
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"Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation."
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"There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout."
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"Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow."
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"Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win."
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"In a single moment, we witnessed the worst of human behavior. And in the next, the very best of human behavior. And even more, we witnessed the tremendous spirit of Americans."
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"We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience."
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"To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation."
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"We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence."
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"The American people have every right to be outraged with the administration's approval of the UAE port deal. It is time the people's House make the security of our Nation's ports a priority."
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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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"If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?"
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"It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration."
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"All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations."
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"Today's my birthday On mans scale 53 is a life more than 1/2 over. On the infinite scale of an eternal being I am just a cell of life that has forever to go!"
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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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"Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting."
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"We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope."
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"I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that."
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"The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting."
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"Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true."
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"To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone."
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