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Quotes by Politician
"But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business."
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"You know in the West they support realistic forces."
15
"But despite the challenges, I love being your Mayor."
15
"Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others."
15
"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
15
"The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
15
"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."
15
"The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government."
15
"We are particularly interested in the mental health programs and policies that support our troops and their families before, during, and after deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan."
15
"I'm not a politician. I'm not a lawyer. I'm just a country boy."
15
"Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon."
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"If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility."
15
"I'm angry that the private sector, which is supposed to be in charge of running gasoline into the Valley, doesn't have its act together to deal with a critical situation, so now the public sector has to step in."
15
"Never separate the life you live from the words you speak."
15
"I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it."
15
"Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time."
15
"We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope."
15
"You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest."
15
"To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own."
15
"We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children."
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"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."
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"To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all - but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing."
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"I don't necessarily believe there's a message in the fact that I'm an African-American Republican. I think there is a message that America as a whole, we are now awake. We are looking at a political construct and we're fairly disappointed. I think the message is no matter where you come from in this country, there is great potential."
15
"You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go."
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"It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat."
15
"Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not."
14
"A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert."
14
"So I think that I can say, as the President of Poland, we're proud that I am coming from Poland, which is different and what's more important, much better than before."
14
"We will liberate our country from the occupying forces and put an end to relations between Russia and the Chechen State, no matter how difficult the task may be."
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"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."
14
"You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains."
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"Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect."
14
"I am in suspense as to the probable or improbability of being called into the Army, a station I would prefer to any other that of being in arms to defend an injured and grossly insulted country."
14
"Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man."
14
"The only plan the Administration seems to have for winning the war is that there is no plan and no schedule for our troops to come home and get out of harm's way."
14
"My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."
14
"Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are."
14
"I believe politicians should always remain realistic."
14
"Moreover, health center services save money and lives by treating diseases before they become chronic conditions, require hospital care or require a trip to the emergency room."
14
"The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms."
14
"If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase."
Tax,
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"What we do should have a Canadian character. Nobody looks his best in somebody else's clothes."
14
"Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement."
14
"The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now."
14
"We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this."
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"I've got to that point in life when there's very few thrills and lots of pills seems we all end up this way. As we wait for our final day. But there's one thing about the pills I take. My manic episodes have taken a break."
14
"Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs."
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