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Quotes by Politician

"If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power."

"I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread."

"We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past."


"The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it."


"The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes."

"I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman."


"Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights."

"Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never."


"More Americans are working today than at any time in history."

"The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France."

"What people want is a seamless Web experience."


"The right to kill another person is not a right that I would agree with and support."

"I had no special effects, no monsters running around, nothing blew up; those things are all things I've done so many times that they lose their allure after a while."


"And it's also producing a growth in debt to the United States that will weight very heavily in a country that has to address issues like having more old people to be covered by Social Security or by pension in the future."

"Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations."

"There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words."


"I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas."

"Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community."

"We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity."

"We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances."

"The Pentagon today will not allow any of these people who work for the Pentagon, to talk to the media. They have gagged them from talking to members of Congress."

"Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations."

"I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone."


"I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp."

"Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now."


"It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage."

"We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize it."

"We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families."

"Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government."

"Last Thursday, our Supreme Court backed that local governments can co-opt private property, and give it to another private entity, for economic development."

"I would argue that's because we had a bunch of smart people running around here. They were coming in and working very hard and many of them had left jobs in which they made significantly more money."

"I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we should change the color of the walls."

"But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here."

"Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking."

"I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well."

"But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education."

"We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison."

"Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains."

"A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning."

"In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart."

"The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity."

"So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age."


"I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst."

"We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system."

"We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class."

"This has always bothered me. If "Change" is the only constant how can we have absolutes?"

"Beginning in June, Alabama seniors previously without prescription drug coverage should begin to see savings of between 10 and 25 percent on their medications."

"We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise."
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