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Quotes by Politician
"We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live."
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"Well, I know I worked for Governor Rockefeller the last time he ran for his fourth term, and I obviously ran against Governor Cuomo the time he ran for his fourth term."
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"Every human must take responsibility for his actions."
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"Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this Administration to better define that mission and a realistic expectation of success in Iraq."
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"Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages."
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"Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him."
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"Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas."
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"We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict."
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"Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble."
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"We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society."
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"So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia."
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"Two weeks before the attack on the USS Cole and then again two days before the attack, they saw through their analysis that a major event was going to occur in Yemen. They told the Navy not to bring the Cole into Yemen harbor. It went in and was attacked."
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"Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it."
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"Ohioans are practical. We're a can-do people. Give us a problem, we'll give you a solution."
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"Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially."
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"But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed."
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"South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake."
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"Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world."
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"We are in a time when the Peace Corps mission is more vital than ever, and the organization is at a 30-year high in the number of volunteers in the field. The Peace Corps is currently in 69 posts and serving 75 countries across the globe."
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"Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development."
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"I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick."
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"One thing that stands out throughout the entire year was that in South Dakota we are much more united than we are divided. Now the divided part creates news, but the united part is what moves us forward."
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"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
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"It is proper that the federal government help alleviate short-term disruptions and price spikes such as those brought about by Hurricane Katrina."
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"Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new."
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"What I advise clients is, sell, pay the tax and be happy. Don't ask me to find a replacement unless it's land."
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"Coal research and development provides huge benefits for the nation, and pay for itself many times over through taxes flowing back to the Treasury from expanded economic activity."
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"The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs."
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"To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries."
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"And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people."
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"In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato."
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"Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it."
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"I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities."
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"I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them."
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"Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating."
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"Fractional Multiplicity' allows for a minute amount of our energy to be present in all places at all times."
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"Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward."
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"I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa."
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"Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time."
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"Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue."
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"I came away from the forums with a profound concern about the highly addictive and destructive nature of methamphetamine. Families are torn apart, lives are destroyed and treatment is difficult to get."
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"When I was a kid I use to put a puzzle together over and over until I got really good at it so one day I turned all the pieces upside down and built it, then I understood the true nature of the puzzle."
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"The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market."
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"Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there."
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"If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations."
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"We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are."
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"Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important."
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