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Quotes by Politician
"I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever."
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"A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all."
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"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost."
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"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."
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"Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults, greater to tell him his."
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"Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives."
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"We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals."
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"Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for."
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"But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications , targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets."
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"Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all."
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"The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops."
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"For a long time in American history, people didn't even come up before the Senate. They didn't come before the Judiciary Committee, and up until about 1923, something like that."
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"This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination."
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"Little boats should keep near shore."
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"I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity."
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"And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions."
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"Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy."
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"I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy."
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"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."
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"Now the difficulty with those warnings is that they were not specific."
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"War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it."
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"We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle."
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"Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide."
54
"California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?"
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"No man was to be eulogized for what he did; or censured for what he did or did not do. All of us are the children of conditions, of circumstances, of environment, of education, of acquired habits and of heredity; moulding men as they are and will for ever be."
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"Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market."
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"Well, you know, I think in conversations with members of the Senate and others, they all recognize that the issue of immigration is important. It's important to our nation, it's important to our public safety, it's important to our security, it's important to our economic well-being moving forward. And it's not something that's going to go away."
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"But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class."
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"Biology includes the study of the human death which began when you took your first breath."
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"Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it."
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"The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle."
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"Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living."
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"The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency."
53
"For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights."
53
"There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack."
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"Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully."
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"You need a very, exceptionally clear vision. And to me, a vision is something that you can say in one sentence. The fewer the words the better."
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"Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs."
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"We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe."
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"In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism."
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"The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself."
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"There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers."
Oil,
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"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."
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"So what we - all we really want, I think, from the so-called Democratic wing of the Democratic Party is really to stand up for what we believe in."
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"If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real."
News,
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"Our nation's infrastructure needs are tremendous, and they're growing."
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"Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion."
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