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Quotes by Politician
"When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up."
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"I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down."
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"Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill."
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"We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington."
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"Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right."
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"We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care."
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"In Congress, I am a strong supporter of the New Apollo Energy Act. This plan would help to establish our energy independence, create jobs, and provide cleaner, reliable, and more affordable energy."
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"Canada has always been a strong supporter of China's accession to the WTO... We look forward to playing a constructive role in helping complete China's accession."
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"Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will."
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"This is my first term. I was told it was going to be an exciting term, and a lot of things would be done, and I cannot think about something more exciting than save Social Security."
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"I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade."
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"If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes."
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"This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses."
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"It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it."
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"Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks."
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"If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again."
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"This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil."
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"In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward."
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"But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples."
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"In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State."
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"During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development."
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"The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist."
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"Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way."
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"The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut."
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"Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history."
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"In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations should establish total prohibition on human cloning as well."
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"The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount."
Fact,
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"Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward."
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"I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security."
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"There's no excuse for skimping on national defense when the country is at war."
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"Enrollment in Colorado is expected to expand about 25 percent in seven years. It's very difficult to find those additional funds. Therefore, I think you're probably going to have increased pressure on tuition."
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"You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it."
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"The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave."
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"Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district."
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"It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic."
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"I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision."
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"Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?"
Hell,
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"Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education."
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"I never apologize for my efforts to support worthy projects that Alabama."
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"I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes."
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"We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives."
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"You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living."
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"I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society."
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"While there are many influences on gas prices in America, I believe the passage of a national energy bill will help relieve this burden on our country."
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"Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong."
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"I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error."
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"I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them."
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"In reality drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis."
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