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Quotes by Politician
"Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner."
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"But as you say, the fundamental stumbling block is the question of the future of the economy. And it's not just the sort of economic laboratory question, of what kind of system would best generate growth, which is the way it's presented."
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"We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people."
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"While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain."
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"Most agree, whatever their party political position, that the West can and should open its agricultural markets more fully to the products of the poorer countries of the globe. They are agricultural societies that need our markets more than our charity."
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"Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing."
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"Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives."
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"The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany."
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"These are the days for strong men to courageously expose wrong."
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"What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And what we need to do is to present those fairly from a scientific point of view. And we should lay out areas in which the evidence supports evolution and the areas in the evidence that does not."
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"Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!"
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"The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree."
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"Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education."
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"An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid."
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"From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people."
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"For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe."
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"The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right."
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"If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon."
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"Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood."
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"We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease."
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"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live."
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"I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered."
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"Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws."
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"Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God."
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"Australia is already a world leader in dementia research, treatment and care."
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"Everybody is talking today about the economy."
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"Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction."
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"If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom."
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"Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue."
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"The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world."
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"Nowhere, absolutely nowhere, has there ever been a hint, not even a whisper, that a Black person was involved in the assassination of the president. But that's the kind of thing you have in this movie."
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"I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times."
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"I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States."
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"For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away."
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"If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible."
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"Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity."
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"We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity.There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region."
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"Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process."
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"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost."
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"A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation."
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"Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk."
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"There is simply no room for anti-Semitism in a democratic and law-abiding state."
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"It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution."
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"Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries."
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"I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power."
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"We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war."
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"Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is."
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