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Quotes by Politician
"So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress."
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"I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes."
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"I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known."
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"Never read a book through merely because you have begun it."
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"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."
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"History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long."
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"The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream of our party's historic commitment to protecting the powerless."
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"Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale."
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"The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different."
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"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."
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"Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously."
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"I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries."
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"Though Congress continues to explore possible solutions to ensure social security solvency, everyone must take personal responsibility to prepare their own retirement savings accordingly."
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"I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people."
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"In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer."
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"If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now."
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"Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution."
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"All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone."
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"Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies."
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"It is a very real concern and my view is that everything changed on September 11th and the procedure, the policies that were in place prior to September 11th no longer should apply."
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"We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit."
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"They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia."
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"President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their team have failed the American people, and that is why their majority will soon be out the door."
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"It was lousy in the park. It wasn't too cold, but the sun still wasn't out, and there didn't look like there was anything in the park except dog crap and globs of spit and cigar butts from old men, and the benches all looked like they'd be wet if you sat down on them. It made you depressed, and every once in a while, for no reason, you got goose flesh while you walked. It didn't seem at all like Christmas was coming soon. It didn't seem like anything was coming."
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"When I finally applied logic to Religion that was when I quit paying after life insurance and quit going."
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"The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots."
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"Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated."
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"I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible."
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"She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind."
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"Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe."
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"Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information."
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"I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values."
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"I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."
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"I think Americans want to believe in this country again."
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"The miniskirt enables young ladies to run faster, and because of it, they may have to."
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"The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less."
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"Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia."
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"Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years."
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"Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia."
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"And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the world in one direction while we move in another direction, and do we want to backslide into an era that we finally emerged from where we had a nuclear weapon for every tactical mission?"
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"So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology."
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"As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate."
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"I was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car."
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"We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol."
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"As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees."
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"We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here."
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"Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia."
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"Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because of the sins of all men."
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"The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse."
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