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Quotes by Politician
"The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it."
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"Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules."
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"It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged."
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"We have to face it: in America today the way to have fun and celebrate is to break a store window and take something. That's the way it is, today in America, and we have to accept it."
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"By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure."
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"We represent people, and any good congressperson wants to know how their people at home feel about issues. I can tell you for sure in our office that is taken into account, and that is true for any congresspersons I know."
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"New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker."
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"Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?"
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"Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies."
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"More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care."
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"The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace."
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"Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war."
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"As a first generation Jewish American, I have witnessed firsthand Jewish immigrants who have come to this Nation in order to create a better life for themselves, their families, and future generations."
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"The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq."
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"Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better."
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"We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is."
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"A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office."
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"I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time."
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"Low-income seniors who choose to enroll in a drug discount plan will receive $600 of Federal assistance in 2004 and 2005 to further defray the costs of their medications."
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"I dare say there may be some men and women in the Armed Forces who are so decent that they would say: Give the Iraqi people money, we do not want to be paid back. That is the strength of our country."
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"We knew shortly after the war that our troops were becoming ill."
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"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."
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"I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates."
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"We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along."
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"The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself."
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"Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig."
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"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."
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"No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas."
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"It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something."
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"Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women."
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"On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers."
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"Tens of billions of dollars could be saved in Medicare and Medicaid alone by eliminate fraud and improving patient care. Not only would this save money, but it will save lives."
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"We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past."
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"Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?"
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"The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him."
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"Every president, if you watch what they look like when they come into office, you can see their hair turn white because it's such a hard job."
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"For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy."
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"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular."
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"Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small."
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"Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments."
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"As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses."
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"Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers."
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"The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of."
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"But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash."
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"There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed."
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