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Quotes by Politician
"We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do."
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"It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within."
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"Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable."
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"When I have flash backs from PTSD I wish my mind came with a delete key."
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"Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States."
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"Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive."
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"The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito."
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"I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic."
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"In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it."
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"That's why I made decisions; they were tough decisions but we shouldn't feel bad at all - don't look back with any regrets, that's how I made decisions as governor."
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"Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C."
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"We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel."
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"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business."
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"We're betting, at this place and this time, we have people ready for change in the state of Maryland."
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"Until 1956, America treated Israel not much differently from other friendly states."
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"Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority."
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"There can be a lot done if you are not so particular about who gets credit for it."
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"Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter."
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"The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years."
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"History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice."
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"Thirdly, as we move through this process of integrating the communications, we will begin to emulate more of the World Wide Web in our work in the future."
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"Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand."
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"The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it."
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"The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality."
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"Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country."
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"The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country."
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"You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia."
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"As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference."
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"Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be."
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"Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need."
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"Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either."
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"In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy."
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"As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs."
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"The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory."
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"Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions."
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"Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce energy as the world has industrialized to serve the world's more than 6 billion and growing population."
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"I've gone from being one of the youngest governors to now the longest consecutive serving governor in the country."
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"We're half the people; we should be half the Congress."
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"And because of these programs like Medicare, Medicare prescription drugs, Social Security, we now have the healthiest and wealthiest group of senior citizens that the world has ever seen. This is a continuing commitment to that."
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"I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school."
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"The Clinton administration brought 65 cases from 1995 to 2000 before the World Trade Organization. The Bush administration has brought twelve. Twelve cases. They haven't even been able to stand up for our jobs."
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"We're not going to take this sitting down. We are fighting back."
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"I have set out to change the language of the international system."
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"I think it's unconscionable for a Senator from Massachusetts to come down here and tell the people of Florida what's right for them. It's arrogant and irresponsible."
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"Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers."
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"During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities."
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