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To engage in war is always to pick a wild card. And war must always be the last resort, not a first choice. I truly must question the judgment of any president who can say that a massive, unprovoked military attack on a nation which is over fifty percent children is 'in the highest moral traditions of our country.'
Robert Byrd
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This may be the most bizarre recommendation, but I am sincere. I'm not saying it's not an issue or it's not important, but proportionally speaking, stop complaining about health care... if there was something that we could do about it that were quick or easy, it would be done... There is no solution.
John E. Sununu
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We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.
Tom Hayden
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Let those who follow me continue to build with the plumb of honor, the level of truth, and the square of integrity, education, courtesy and mutuality.
John Wanamaker
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The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.
James P. Cannon
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When Theodore Roosevelt asked for a legal justification for the acquisition of the Panama Canal project:
Oh, Mr President, do not let so great an achievement suffer from any taint of legality.
Philander C. Knox
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Let me remind you this has been going on for years. We are bringing it to a halt. The harsh fact of the matter is when you're going to pass legislation that will cover 300 [million] American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.
John Dingell
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I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between them in the hour of battle and of death.
Thaddeus Stevens
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Stand up for what you believe in, because you can fall for anything.
Les Brown (speaker)
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The Bush National Security Strategy is the imperial edict of a superpower out to exploit its present supremacy to make itself permanent Lord Protector of the universe.
Pat Buchanan
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This is destined to be a very wealthy portion of the United States, and, if to this we can add the most temperate, nothing will prevent our rising, and becoming a valuable acquisition to the union. Much power now lies in your hands, and, I sincerely hope, we may commence our new career with a law in our statute books, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of ardent spirits in Oregon territory.
George Abernethy
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It was the first airplane... that could make money just by hauling passengers.
C. R. Smith
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This was a very serious sin in my past for which I am, of course, completely responsible. Several years ago, I asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife in confession and marriage counseling. Out of respect for my family, I will keep my discussion of the matter there - with God and them. But I certainly offer my deep and sincere apologies to all I have disappointed and let down in any way.
David Vitter
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The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty of a nation is marked by the degree in which it neglects and abandons the care of its own industry, leaving it exposed to the action of foreign powers.
Henry Clay
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... reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention where they could be held for years without any representation or charges is distressing.
Dana Perino
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John McCain may pay hundreds of dollars for his shoes, but we're the ones who will pay for his flip-flops.
Bill Richardson
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No man should live where he can hear his neighbor's dog bark.
Nathaniel Macon
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As each new discovery opens up, it may be, boundless oceans for investigation, for wonder, and for admiration, the great astronomers, refusing to accept mere hypotheses as true, have founded upon these discoveries a science as exact in its observation of facts as in theories.
George L. Forbes
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If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, it would be Christmas everyday.
John Boehner
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America understands that there is one party in this country that is favor of health care reform and one party that is against it, and they know why. They understand that if Barack Obama were somehow able to cure hunger in the world the Republicans would blame him for overpopulation. They understand that if Barack Obama could somehow bring about world peace they would blame him for destroying the defense industry. In fact, they understand that if Barack Obama has a BLT sandwich tomorrow for lunch, they will try to ban bacon. But that's not what America wants, America wants solutions to its problems and that begins with health care, and that's what I'm speaking for tonight.
Alan Grayson
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Forty-one years ago that couple from Haiti could have made the choice to abort, but they didn't. They chose life. They didn't choose what might have been; they chose what is to come. They went and followed and fostered that life, and the future and the dreams that baby would bring
Mia Love
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Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is so conspicuous among the educated and well-to-do precisely because they are exposed to more information, and are accordingly forced to choose between living with the strains of complexity, or lapsing into simplism.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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More and more parents are coming to realize their children are suffering at the hands of a system built to strangle any reform, any innovation, or any change.... This realization is becoming more evident as the momentum builds for an education revolution.
Betsy DeVos
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Farewell to ye all! In the land of the stranger I rise or I fall.
Davy Crockett
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Has he paid his dues? Is he black enough? … John Lewis and I were out there marching and organizing sit-ins back in the '60s so that his children and my children would not have to do it. … We would have been failures if [Obama] had to do the same things we did.
Jim Clyburn
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