▶ "This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven."; "The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war."; "Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage."; "May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery."; "It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms."; …"As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections."; "While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."; "When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong."; "Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least."; "The most heroic word in all languages is revolution."; "I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world."; "Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation."; "You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad."; "What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable."; "We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments."; "We have confused the free with the free and easy."; "We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present."; "To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation."; "Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse."; "There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody."; "There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms."; "The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."; "The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end."; "The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it."; "The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small."; "The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."; "The human race has improved everything, but the human race."; "The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning."; "The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum."; "The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day."; "That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another."; "Some people approach every problem with an open mouth."; "Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for."; "Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age."; "Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."; "On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers."; "On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died."; "Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation."; "Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket."; "Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff."; "Nature is neutral."; "Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans."; "My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."; "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it."; "Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them."; "Making peace is harder than making war."; "Laws are never as effective as habits."; "Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop."; "Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them."; "It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color."; "It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts."; "In quiet places, reason abounds."; "Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard."; "If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."; "I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly."; "I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way."; "I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."; "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."; "He who slings mud generally loses ground."; "Freedom rings where opinions clash."; "Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate."; "For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance."; "Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be."; "Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you."; "Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal."; "Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice."; "Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job."; "As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end."; "An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics."; "An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff."; "All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions."; "After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention."; "Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction."; "A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth."; "A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation."; "A hungry man is not a free man."; "A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular."; "A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you."; "It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it."; "If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real."; "What we do should have a Canadian character. Nobody looks his best in somebody else's clothes."; "If you don't drink, smoke, or drive a car, you're a tax evader."; "Music is one of the easy things to eliminate because of budget cuts, but it's important to give kids the avenue to express themselves."; "Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once."; "And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves."; "As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned."; "For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country."; "It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system."; "I'm very disappointed with the McCain campaign. In my opinion, it was inept."; "When you're really poor, everything you see is something you can't have."; "The boys are in such a mood that if someone introduced the Ten Commandments, they'd cut them down to seven."; "I'm always happy to have the President visit North Carolina. Unfortunately, the citizens of North Carolina who could be most adversely affected by the President's plan have not been invited to the discussion."; "Some people may get in to the building without the proper passes and things, but I think that's the price you pay for being an open place for people to come."; "If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, then it's good enough for Texas."; "If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics."; "Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post."; "I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government."; "In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population."; "The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression."; "It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot."; "All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet."; "If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand."; "If we know there is enough money in there for nine or ten months, we won't worry too much. They can come back and get more-not all they want, but a large piece of it. So you always have the supplemental as a safety valve."; "If you don't have a policeman to stop traffic and let you walk across the street like you are somebody, how are you going to know you are somebody?"; "It's dishonest to say we're doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can."; "You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime."; "Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow - red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight."; "There's never any ability to plan a personal life."; "I'm not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever."; "Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature."; "I don't think he believed most of the things he said himself."; "I believe if we introduced the Lord's Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it."; "I don't care to be involved in the crash-landing unless I can be in on the take-off."; "You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube."; "The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history."; "The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie."; "I don't want to rust out, I'd rather wear out."; "I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable."; "Bloody hell, Ma'am, what's he doing in here?"; "Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary."; "It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments."; "Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists."; "Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women."; "Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration."; "I don't want the federal government to rush in and bail the out right away."; "Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us."; "As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation."; "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."; "First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!"; "And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power."; "As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean drinking water for more than 30 million people but are also an integral part of Michigan's heritage and its economy."; "Why stick your neck out if you don't have to? If you're right nobody will remember and if you're wrong people will ask a lot of questions."; "Catholic schools prepare every student to meet the challenges of their future by developing their mind, yes, but also their body and their soul and spirit."; "As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud."; "She has turned the British bulldog into a Reagan poodle."; "Compared to the United States and certainly a lot of other countries around the world... per year, Australians do see more films."; "I'm just a newsboy who met a President."; "I opposed Clinton's budget deal in 1997 because he brought in $115 billion cut in Medicare that created greater pressure for providers not to participate."; "After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals."; "Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations; why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?"; "I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right."; "Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop."; "And so we go over the cliff fiscally, and our Republican friends try to pin the blame on discretionary domestic spending, including spending for security. We pass budget resolutions that fall far short."; "Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again."; "And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet."; "Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state."; "America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams."; "China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade... They don't have any compliance or enforcement."; "Today, we realize there are those actively seeking to harm us, to destroy our infrastructure and take lives."; "As a former cop, I respect and appreciate those who've dedicated their lives to serving others as well as those who appreciate the rule of law and honor it."; "Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account."; "But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence."; "I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts."; "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."; "Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire."; "Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during the football games. So we signed up and I went to many games in full Boy Scout uniform as an usher."; "A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease."; "There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana."; "American POWs from the last Iraq war, who were held prisoner and tortured by Iraq, are now being prevented by our government from suing the Iraqis who tortured them."; "In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences."; "I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly."; "How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?"; "Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market."; "Able Danger consisted of approximately 20 direct individuals working for Special Forces in Tampa, Florida. The total amount of people working for Able Danger was 20."; "I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag."; "Despite the negativity coming from the President's opponents, the United States remains fully committed to assisting the Iraqis in restoring security and rebuilding their nation."; "Actually, I think I come at things a whole different way from most people, and, you know, sometimes political answers are one way to solve the problem, and sometimes there are better ways to do it."; "Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration."; "As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget."; "I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning."; "I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake."; "Although AmeriCorps is making a difference among its participants and the people they serve, we must address homelessness and the need for job training among our veterans."; "For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane."; "It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges."; "When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy."; "There are lots of countries around that have weapons of mass destruction. We can't presumably attack them all."; "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."; "I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's."; "The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game."; "As mayor, I'm in the frying pan. I'm just sitting here on the griddle now, and I've got to really think, you know, do I want to stay here on the griddle?"; "I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly."; "It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting."; "A Democrat has to show the toughness to govern. People don't doubt that Republicans will be tough."; "We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government."; "The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again."; "Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty."; "I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute."; "We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland."; "At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic."; "Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words."; "Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside."; "My family is more important than my party."; "I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny."; "For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure."; "Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder."; "We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old."; "We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war."; "We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists."; "We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States."; "We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree."
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