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Quotes by Politician
"An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently."
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"I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome."
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"Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum."
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"On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles."
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"My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything."
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"I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly."
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"It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations."
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"That the Iraqi Government is considering a political deal granting amnesty to insurgents who have attacked or killed American service members is not just shocking - the idea of amnesty for insurgents is an outrage."
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"The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise."
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"This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval."
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"The fact is that America relies on Amtrak to move people."
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"What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'"
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"It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa."
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"Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth."
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"The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession."
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"After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District."
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"There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations."
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"The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda."
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"Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote."
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"While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good."
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"We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility."
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"Football is what keeps me going, what makes me prosper, and what will keep me straight."
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"French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real."
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"Well I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on matters of policy."
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"Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs."
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"Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age."
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"When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help."
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"It's time Congress got its priorities straight."
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"When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads."
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"Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital."
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"I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue."
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"The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse."
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"Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace."
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"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate."
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"It's crucial to keep in mind that the hundreds of millions of dollars now spent on prescription drug advertisements are ultimately paid for by consumers in the form a higher drug prices."
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"And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people."
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"No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference."
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"You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong."
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"Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate."
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"When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand."
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"In the first State of the Union of his second term, President Bush made clear to Americans tonight that he is not going to play the role of a lame duck President."
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"I have great respect for President Bush, Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge."
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"The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel."
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"I'll look and pick the best, and the one who can do the best job for the party."
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"If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?"
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"When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set."
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"The art of creation is older than the art of killing."
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"Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession."
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"The dream was not to put one black family in the White house, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house."
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