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Quotes by Politician
"The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason."
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"Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities."
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"Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families."
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"I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone."
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"That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers."
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"Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go."
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"There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics."
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"Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era."
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"The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible."
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"What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians."
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"On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers."
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"I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit."
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"We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too."
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"Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national."
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"China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population."
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"Freedom and Justice are twin sisters."
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"Now, I think that in acknowledging that every individual Member of Parliament and indeed every individual member of the Labour Party, has rights to express their view in a spirit of tolerance."
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"I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention."
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"Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country."
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"In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule of law among the reservation people. It is killing our tribal youth in this country."
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"Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration."
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"Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before."
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"For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business."
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"I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go, your first move will be to apply yourself in school."
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"And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership."
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"We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves."
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"Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance."
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"Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living."
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"There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free."
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"In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, I sent a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen L Johnson urging him to waive regulations to allow for the early sale of winter grade fuel to help with gasoline shortages and gasoline prices."
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"We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation."
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"Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members."
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"It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this."
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"If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you."
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"I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences."
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"People always think something's all true. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am, I really do. But people never notice. People never notice anything."
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"My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength."
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"You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President."
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"Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden."
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"One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements."
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"No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education."
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"Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home."
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"It was determined, as shown in the report of the Commission, which I can read to you, but I know you are familiar with the report. It states there was disagreement on this issue, particularly as the subject was debated, that there were different opinions about it."
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"Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they have worked so hard to create."
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"Who's paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We've been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the gun industry, We won't insure you unless you have policies that will reduce the likelihood of guns falling into the wrong hands easily."
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"You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table."
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"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."
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