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Quotes by Politician
"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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"A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel."
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"Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers."
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"It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security."
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"Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop."
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"We have no stronger ally anywhere in the world than Israel."
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"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."
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"Tool of Communist agitators... it's really a joke, isn't it? Because, quite clearly, we are a party of real moderates. It just shows how little they understand."
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"I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel."
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"If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now."
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"The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations."
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"Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor."
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"In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000 and 2005 - which is an increase from 8 percent to 10.6 percent of the overall population - and the jobless rate in the state has hit a 6 year low."
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"Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime."
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"There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody."
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"I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway."
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"Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you."
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"Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions."
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"In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime."
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"In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship."
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"His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web."
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"On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all."
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"Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position."
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"The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America."
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"I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me."
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"India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there."
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"There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one."
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"The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students."
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"The one that sang, old Janine, was always whispering into the g***** microphone before she sang. She'd say, 'And now we like to geeve you our impression of Vooly Voo Fransay. Eet ees the story of leetle Fransh girl who comes to a beeg ceety, just like New York, and falls een love wees a leetle boy from Brookleen. We hope you like eet.' Then, when she was all done whispering and being cute as hell, she'd sing some dopey song, half in English and half in French, and drive all the phonies in the place mad with joy."
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"I have a great book. It's called Stantasyland. Except I don't have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list."
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"At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold."
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"There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it."
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"I have confidence in people's basic common sense."
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"This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing."
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"In a valley betwixt two hills there I stood perfectly still. In this stance I did find the most beautiful secrets of my mind."
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"One must always keep one's government under control."
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"If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works."
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"Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research."
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"I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq."
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"After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything."
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"It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality."
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"Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love."
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"Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness."
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"I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs."
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