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Quotes by Politician
"We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious."
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"By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities."
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"I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem."
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"All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt."
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"But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility."
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"It's good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that's best for them and target assistance to the lowest income people."
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"What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000."
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"No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted."
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"Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school."
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"Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise."
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"Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions."
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"I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance."
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"Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family."
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"For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why."
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"How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!"
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"Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind."
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"In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke."
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"Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us."
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"Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008."
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"I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress."
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"This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups."
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"Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice."
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"I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for."
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"The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans."
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"The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own."
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"The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions."
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"He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property."
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"Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough."
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"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there."
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"The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law."
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"There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people."
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"The best defense against these people is to educate parents and children of the dangers that come along with the Internet and by limiting access to certain sites during the school day."
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"Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it."
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"In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services."
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"Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives."
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"The trouble with having a place for everything is how often it gets filled up with everything else."
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"Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty."
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"Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball."
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"In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community."
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"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."
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"I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time."
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"I said during the course of the campaign I didn't like it and I don't like the idea of having an opponent's picture on your ads and it would be nice to see candidates sign a pledge like that."
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"It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics."
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"Third issue, and again I think it is important to note, anyone can make a mistake and any administration can make a mistake once in a while, but this is just a long train of abuses, an unbroken chain of following special interests rather than the health of the American people."
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"In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law."
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"If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen."
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"The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut."
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"It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results."
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