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Quotes by Politician
"Politicians in this country have always been for sale. That is nothing new."
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"Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get."
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"We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform."
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"Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot."
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"Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children."
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"Some people approach every problem with an open mouth."
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"If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it."
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"Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs."
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"The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself."
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"I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was some serious talk about a balanced budget amendment, which we as governors always had to deal with."
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"I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level."
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"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."
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"Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less."
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"Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream."
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"For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late."
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"God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode."
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"The Internet is a great information tool, and can be a place where kids learn, but we must remember that when kids are online, they are in public."
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"I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America."
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"Mr. Speaker, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that embryonic stem cells have great potential to regenerate specific types of human tissues, offering hope for millions of Americans suffering from debilitating diseases."
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"There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start."
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"It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur."
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"The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence."
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"I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months."
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"Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians."
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"My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery."
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"Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books."
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"Estimates show that small businesses contribute 60-80 percent of the net new jobs annually."
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"There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property."
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"We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction."
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"Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues to use for studies in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the training of nuclear industry personnel."
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"The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970."
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"I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons."
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"The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end."
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"Our nation's military and law enforcement personal work hard to protect us. We must thank them for their continued vigilance. Without their sacrifice we would less capable of protecting our nation."
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"Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I think people are plotting to make me happy."
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"Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to."
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"We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels."
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"The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided?"
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"We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent."
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"We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as available because I cannot imagine the pain as a parent myself of having my child molested by someone in our schools."
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"I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs."
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"Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned."
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"In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization."
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"They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about - not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group."
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