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Quotes by Politician
"They're pushing credit cards. They don't take Visa, but they do take American Express, or they don't take this one, but they take that one, or you'd better bring this one, or if you forget who you are, look on your credit card; it will be there."
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"War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality."
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"Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers."
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"The family has a social function and so it should be sustained."
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"We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race."
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"And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot."
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"In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it."
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"It's about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards."
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"When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'"
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"Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild."
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"I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows."
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"It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked."
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"Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups."
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"I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy."
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"The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state."
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"Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership."
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"We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years."
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"Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all."
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"Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration."
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"The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the Nazi period would have been much more complicated, or almost impossible."
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"Children need continuity as they grow and learn."
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"Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system."
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"Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections."
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"Over the course of two terms, President Reagan revolutionized the Republican Party and changed the political atmosphere in a way still being felt today."
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"We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation."
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"Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls."
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"Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain."
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"Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days."
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"It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman."
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"Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable."
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"They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up."
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"The status quo helps liberals. We're going to change the country."
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"I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education."
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"No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs."
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"While we must ensure that these dangerous new drugs and precursors do not get in the hands of children or others who would use them improperly, we must also be aware that these same drugs have legitimate uses."
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"One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them."
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"The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides."
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"The study also included the disturbing revelation that most of the troops who reported having mental health problems also reported that they did not seek or did not receive care for their problems."
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"I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country."
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"There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings."
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"But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life."
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"America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it."
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"There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of forty percent or more."
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"If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'"
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"It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops."
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"Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on."
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"I mean the fact is that some of this information that we have found out that led to Usama bin Laden actually came from these enhanced interrogation techniques."
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"We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do."
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