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Quotes by Politician
"Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate."
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"Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases."
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"Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total."
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"You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions."
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"My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more."
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"I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills."
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"My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow."
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"In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British."
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"As the economy grows, so will the demand for energy."
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"Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again."
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"I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies - smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles."
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"The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them."
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"We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft."
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"As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech."
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"Since 2000, we have lost 2.7 million manufacturing jobs, of which 500,000 jobs were in high-tech industries such as telecommunications and electronics."
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"Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change."
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"Luckily, I'm a governor - so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do."
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"Military police is very timely for our army."
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"The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement."
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"When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen."
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"The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists."
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"The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories."
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"The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy."
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"If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them."
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"Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts."
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"Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe."
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"Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another."
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"You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down."
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"In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north."
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"Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done, both as a woman and as a Member of Congress."
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"The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole."
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"Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter."
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"You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition."
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"On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice."
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"And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale."
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"We should not have our children going to school to learn how to become obese."
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"Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile."
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"If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?"
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"I opposed Clinton's budget deal in 1997 because he brought in $115 billion cut in Medicare that created greater pressure for providers not to participate."
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"How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?"
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"I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House."
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"One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation."
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"For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him."
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"One can always debate questions back and forth."
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"We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum."
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"I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test."
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"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."
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