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Quotes by Politician
"There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction."
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"Democrats don't relate to middle-class people."
52
"The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature."
52
"No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces."
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"High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel."
52
"It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can."
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"Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security."
52
"After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children."
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"We need a strong, bold constitutional conservative who won't back down and who will fight for the values we believe in. That's what we need for our nominee, whether it is me or whether it is someone else."
52
"Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales."
52
"We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children."
52
"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."
52
"And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job."
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"Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly."
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"Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor."
52
"I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame."
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"What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it."
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"They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt."
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"Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it."
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"The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies."
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"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas."
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"Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north."
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"In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after."
52
"We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention."
52
"When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away."
52
"You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success."
52
"Iraq continues to be an immense disaster, and the President has no apparent plan for getting our troops out."
52
"I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer."
52
"There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price."
52
"The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before."
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"Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade."
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"We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget."
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"In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated."
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"Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result."
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"It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power."
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"I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care."
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"The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the southwest and western United States."
52
"The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state."
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"Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision."
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"I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right."
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"I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them."
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"I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus."
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"The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour."
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"I agree with the President that second-guessing is not a strategy, but at the same time, I want to continue the dialogue that ultimately will lead to bringing all of our troops home."
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"We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions."
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"In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight."
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"There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide."
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