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Quotes by Politician
"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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"We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus."
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"I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it."
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"If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail."
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"The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences."
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"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down."
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"What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists."
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"Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries."
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"I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law."
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"What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days."
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"I beg you to look at the promising boys and beautiful girls in your homes and in your communities, and then you will not put these temptations in their way."
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"The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives."
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"The best self help book I've ever read was, The little Engine that Could."
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"When you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose."
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"I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company."
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"As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment."
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"Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs."
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"So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you."
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"You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there."
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"I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser."
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"Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life."
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"We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge."
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"I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also."
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"Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country."
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"We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and weeks and that's fine as long as everyone comes ready to talk and not just snipe, complain and argue."
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"Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that."
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"I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university."
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"We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again."
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"It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment."
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"Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism."
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"My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues."
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"I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy."
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"There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them."
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"I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known."
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"Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium."
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"We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody."
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"That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement."
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"The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country."
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"As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita."
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"I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy."
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"There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals."
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"Their families helped them realize that there was more out there for them. These students came to Delaware State because of its inexpensive tuition, closeness to home, and solid reputation."
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"If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger."
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"Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party."
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"In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution."
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