A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles ... an amateur promoter, a glad-hander, embryo Rotarian, caf-society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind.
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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
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I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
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On profit-driven factory farms, veal calves are confined to dark wooden crates so small that they are prevented from lying down or scratching themselves. These creatures feel; they know pain. They suffer pain just as we humans suffer pain. Egg-laying hens are confined to battery cages. Unable to spread their wings, they are reduced to nothing more than an egg-laying machine. . . . The law clearly requires that these poor creatures be stunned and rendered insensitive to pain before [the slaughtering] process begins. Federal law is being ignored. Animal cruelty abounds. It is sickening. It is infuriating. Barbaric treatment of helpless, defenseless creatures must not be tolerated even if these animals are being raised for food—and even more so, more so. Such insensitivity is insidious and can spread and is dangerous. Life must be respected and dealt with humanely in a civilized society.
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The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
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I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country.
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Senator, I started my life in a house without water or electricity. So I don't cede to you the high moral ground of not knowing what life is like in a ditch. to Senator Robert Byrd at a budget hearing
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The moral test of any society is how is treats its weakest: children, elderly, sick, needy and handicapped.
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Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
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Falling in love with a United States Senator is a splendid ordeal. One is nestled snugly into the bosom of power but also placed squarely in t...
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Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining-car worker ... If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system.
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Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.
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Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incomptetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries.
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Lucas: You're the Democratic nominee for Senator. John McKay: You make that sound like a death sentence.
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Senator, my offer is this: nothing. Not even the price of the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.
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If Senator Kerry understands the nature of this threat and the need to take on terror, then he should immediately repudiate these troubling comments, and stop all efforts on behalf of his surrogates to blame America for these attacks.
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A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
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A billion here, a billion there - pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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Wags try to invent new stories to tell about the legislature, and end by telling the old one about the senator who explained his unaccustomed ...
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Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.
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Helicon: 'It takes one day to make a senator and ten years to make a worker.' Caligula: 'But I am afraid that it takes twenty years to ma...
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Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty...
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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain ordinary people.
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I'll tell you what PAYGO means, when you're a senator from Massachusetts, when you're a colleague of Ted Kennedy, pay go means: You pay, and he goes ahead and spends.
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Senator Albert B. Fall: 'We have been praying for you, Sir.' President Wilson: 'Which way, Senator?'
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He looked at Senator Hatch and said, 'I'm going to make her cry. I'm going to sing 'Dixie' until she cries.' And I looked at him and said, 'Se...
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Michael Corleone: My father is no different than any powerful man. Any man who's responsible for other people. Like a senator or a president.
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There is a direct link between the federal tax cut of 2001 and state tax increases in 2003. When the federal government's mistakes force states to raise their taxes, it not only robs Peter to pay Paul, but it hurts hard-working families and it undermines our economy's strength.
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Sen. Edward Kennedy knows very directly. Senator Kennedy and I talked on several occasions prior to the war that my view was that the best evidence that I had seen was that Iraq indeed had weapons of mass destruction.
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