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Quotes by Politician
"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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"For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make."
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"I kept telling everyone I wasn't going to Washington to stay. I go to visit."
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"I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to."
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"Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities."
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"Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development."
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"It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record."
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"But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act."
Act,
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"Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture."
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"Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover's electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater weight to the statements of those persons who were alleging involvement of the FBI."
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"I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor."
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"In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042."
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"Our foyer has a funny smell that doesn't smell like anyplace else. I don't know what the hell it is. It isn't cauliflower and it isn't perfume-I don't know what the hell it is-but you always know you're home."
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"If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it."
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"It's true that the question of Iraq divided Europe."
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"It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is."
Life,
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"At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible."
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"Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty."
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"On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets."
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"Listeners will wonder what an Englishman is doing on the German radio tonight. You can imagine that before taking this step I hoped that someone better qualified than me would come forward."
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"The government is becoming the family of last resort."
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"The only way to set yourself free is to meet each new challenge relatively."
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"The earth and its resources belong of right to its people."
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"The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs."
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"That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God - when they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure-instead of an aid, become an encumbrance and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way."
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"Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority."
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"I want to attract the best people into teaching."
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"With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve."
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"Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs."
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"In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State."
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"The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history."
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"I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better."
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"In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems."
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"Government cannot be all things to all people."
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"New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party."
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"All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness."
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"Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard."
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"By increasing the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel, and providing the Department of Energy with a budget to create more energy efficiency options, agriculture can be the backbone of our energy supply as well."
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"I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy."
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"If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world."
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"I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called to Louisiana. And they did a magnificent job."
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"My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy."
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"Action makes more fortune than caution."
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"Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable."
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