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Quotes by Politician
"It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results."
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"I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy."
48
"But these days there are a lot of younger people who would like to go into teaching but don't because the economic opportunities are sometimes elsewhere."
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"The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education."
48
"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too."
48
"People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment."
48
"The President forgot to mention the Moon, Mars, and the federal deficit - all of which are sky-high."
48
"This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy."
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"If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature."
48
"United States is a great Country and has its effective role on the international arena, so we have to boost our relations with it, in order to achieve peace and stability in our region and the world."
48
"Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty."
48
"There is a difficult leap between talking about balancing the budget and actually doing it."
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"The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them."
48
"I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine."
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"Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience."
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"There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism."
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"Does politics have to be injected into everything?"
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"Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process."
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"It is no secret that our tax code is drastically outdated and burdensome to all Americans. Fortunately, more and more people are aware daily of the inequities that arise from things such as the estate tax, and it has come to the forefront of Congress' agenda."
48
"Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs."
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"Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country."
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"We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal."
48
"The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it."
48
"Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico."
48
"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor."
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"Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'"
48
"Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era."
48
"Our country is not in crisis; there are no tanks in the streets. No matter what the outcome of the president's situation, life in America will go on. Our lives will continue to be filled with practical matters, not constitutional ones."
48
"He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply."
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"There is nothing more beautiful than the light of a Candle and the Aroma of it's Heart."
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"If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s."
48
"During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved."
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"To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing."
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"We have closely monitored the ups and downs of recruiting and retention trends for many years and have been quick to sound the alarm when challenges came into view."
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"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it."
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"However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality."
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"We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life."
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"In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties."
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"Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists."
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"That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children."
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"It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios."
Fact,
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"We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress."
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"If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs."
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"I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief."
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"I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass."
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"The president of the United States actually has to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time."
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"Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers."
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