Tom Allen Quotes

• Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

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  Independence, Foundation, Energy

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• While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

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  Character, Winter, Months

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• Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

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  Business, Community, Backbone

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• Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.

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  Cells, Promise, Research

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• By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!

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  Usa, America, Giving

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• If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.

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  Party, Identity, Together

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• The Sudanese have delighted me, not only in their generosity and simplicity, but also in their tendency to take tea with milk and not to hesitate to dunk biscuits in it. As an Englishman, you can imagine the feeling of fraternal closeness that this activity has generated.

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  Generosity, Simplicity, Feelings

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• In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.

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  Cutting, Ties, Osama Bin Laden

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• Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people

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  Winter, Unique, Land

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• To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it

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  Children, War, Cutting

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• We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.

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  Iraq, Week, Spending

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• But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.

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  Country, Land, Sky

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• The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.

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  Religious, Rights, Special

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• They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

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  Hippie, Rights, Law

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• Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked for a year (1970-71) on the staff of Sen. Ed Muskie of Maine, this was a different place, more collegial, more sensitive to data, more concerned about all of the American people. I think because the for-profit media prizes conflict above cooperation and sound bites above analysis, politicians have learned to adapt to those tendencies. Consequently, our public debates are dumbed down as our problems grow more complex.

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  Thinking, Data, Media

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• Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response

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  Mercury, Problem, Plant

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• The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities

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  Special, Quality, Mercury

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• President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office

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  Office, President, Energy

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• I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations.

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  Land, Support, Generations

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• I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.

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  Children, Thinking, Numbers

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• Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.

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  Stupid, Entrepreneur, Cost

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• I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism.

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  People, Terrorism, British

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• What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.

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  Country, Important, Looks

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• I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.

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  Believe, Community, Research

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• Winter in #‎ Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity.

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  Winter, Maine, Activity

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