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Quotes by Politician
"Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law."
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"And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good."
50
"The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety."
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"I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year."
50
"While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis."
50
"Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring."
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"The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important."
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"By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies."
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"Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on."
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"I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known."
Life,
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"Ethanol and biodiesel allow people to burn a cleaner form of energy."
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"My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order."
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"Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a cyclist instead of a shooter's, but I think there is a point to where too much is not a good thing. I think I try to lower my center of gravity by doing a lot of legs."
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"You don't need to be for or against the war to provide morale and support to the men and women who are fighting over seas. These are human beings who are doing a service."
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"The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy."
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"And, in the case of schools, or anything else, if you have something that is forcing you to do better than you did the day before, it makes you look forward and it makes you think in a way that's going to make the product better, which is the students and the education."
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"Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat."
Time,
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"It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else."
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"You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams."
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"We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built."
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"We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!"
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"For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods."
Work,
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"We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts."
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"Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation."
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"A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique."
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"There's another issue here - and I have some limits as to what I can say - but there's some real question as to the viability of the chemical masks, the protective gear used by our soldiers."
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"This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president."
49
"Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history."
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"The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise."
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"What's important for me is to communicate the vision that I have in sound with the audience that's hearing it."
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"The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status."
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"The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members."
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"The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states."
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"We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do."
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"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut."
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"Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remained neutral with both sides, although not agreeing with either as to the righteousness of their respective orders."
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"I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid."
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"We are going through tough economic times but things are looking up, and the indicators are improving not only for large corporations but also for small business."
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"This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism."
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"More than 54,000 jobs in the region are dependent upon the Port of Philadelphia alone."
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"Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous."
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"There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace."
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"The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned."
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"Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government."
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"I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head."
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"The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire."
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"You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power."
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"When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country?"
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"Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody."
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