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Quotes by Politician

"I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives."


"I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires."

"My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America."


"The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security."

"Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division."

"I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness."


"Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals."

"The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency."

"For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher."

"In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes."

"Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions."

"There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain."

"I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination."
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"We are talking about predictable recurring flooding."

"We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old."


"So I think we're, we're, we're as broad a political party, if not broader than the Democratic Party, just in a different political spectrum."


"We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom."

"I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity."

"Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?"

"For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law."


"There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession."

"We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is."

"At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line."

"To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America's long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill."

"But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of."

"Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included."

"What's wrong is that we are not participating to make this the type of government it needs to be."


"In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted."

"An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million."

"Compassion is contempt with a human face."

"Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage."

"We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo."

"The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics."

"I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years."

"We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world."

"Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased."

"I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties."

"The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states."

"But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by."

"What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning."

"War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace."

"Well, that our main concern is that Iraq should not become a divided country."

"The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also."


"Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that."

"Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for."
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