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Quotes by Politician
"Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty."
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"Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war."
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"Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories."
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"Well we had nine top forensic pathologists from across the country, who operated as a panel, who looked at all the ballistic evidence and they came out saying that those bullets did exactly what the Warren Commission said they did."
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"But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day."
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"If we in fact were to begin enforcing the law against people who are hiring people who are here illegally, we would go a long way towards eliminating the problem."
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"Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up."
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"Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry."
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"The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill."
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"I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom."
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"The best prayers have often more groans than words."
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"Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs."
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"The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon."
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"We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city."
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"When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms."
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"It is up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve no British interest but for the interests of a small clique of utterly unscrupulous men."
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"We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face."
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"You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that."
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"It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me."
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"Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talking about how to prevent disease, or about who does the best job of treating disease, it is useful to provide as much information to the public as possible."
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"Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws."
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"Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline."
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"The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message to the broadcast industry that Alabama families, like the rest of American families, have had enough."
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"Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest."
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"Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States."
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"We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, but first we need to reject privatization schemes and work together to strengthen Social Security."
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"As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end."
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"In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals."
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"During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history."
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"We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited."
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"Most of the things that need to be said about the President are things he can't say himself."
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"The championship always goes to the team that wins the most rounds and is the most prepared. I think everybody on our team works hard towards keeping that goal. Time will tell if we're prepared or not."
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"And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up."
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"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint."
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"I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism."
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"I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay."
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"In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him."
God,
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"Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country."
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"It's important right now to continue to have your patients contact their senators and their congresspeople to say we have a problem. We want you to help solve it, we want you to be involved."
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"I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads."
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"Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities."
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"Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddamn hand dies on you."
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"The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms."
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"Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win."
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"I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution."
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"Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers."
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"In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion."
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