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Quotes by Politician
"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
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"Operation Northern Star with Canada has made significant progress in battling meth from the north, and we are engaged in numerous training opportunities in Mexico to help curb the problem from the south."
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"It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free."
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"I believe our foreign assistance should be scrutinized, should be debated, and that we should strike the right balance, but in all cases the foreign assistance that we provide around the world should be used to further our national security interests."
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"Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops."
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"But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media."
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"Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action."
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"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."
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"It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican."
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"Alabama farmers want a chance to complete fairly in Japan, but they can't if the Japanese won't let us in."
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"There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power."
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"Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants."
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"Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round."
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"Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them."
Law,
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"Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort."
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"So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it."
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"From time to time, the irresponsible acts of the Cuban government remind us that this is far more than about the freedom of one country, but it really is about the stability and security of the region and the national security interests of the United States."
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"We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised."
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"France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so."
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"I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive."
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"Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq."
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"I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive."
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"Unfair trade agreements, passed by both Republicans and Democrats, have sent millions of jobs to other countries. We need to stop this hemorrhaging and find ways for American workers to compete in the new market."
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"Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace."
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"My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today."
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"The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people."
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"Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely."
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"Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals."
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"Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed."
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"Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!"
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"I've given birth to five babies and I breastfed every single one of these babies. To think that government has to go out and buy my breast pump for my babies. You wanna talk about the nanny state? I think we just got the new definition of a nanny."
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"For all of us who have been involved in the recovery efforts to bring back and strengthen wild salmon runs, we fear that this change in policy could lead to further declines in these wild stocks."
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"Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago."
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"In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution."
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"And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up."
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"The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth."
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"The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve."
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"As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook."
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"If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them."
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"To be sure, in some instances these proceedings have been unconstitutional, but we must remember that it is not the first time since a war that there have been changes in governments by such methods."
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"No, our greatness does not come from our government."
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"Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy."
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"For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds."
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"And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so."
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"Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt."
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