Policy Quotes - Page 20

• The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans.

  John Cornyn

  Leadership, Running, Party

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• America is just so weird in what they think is right and wrong. Like, I was watching 'Breaking Bad' the other day, and they were cooking meth. I could literally cook meth because of that show. It's a how-to. And then they bleeped out the word 'f__k'. And I'm like, really? They killed a guy, and disintegrated his body in acid, but you're not allowed to say 'f__k'? It's like when they bleeped 'molly' at the VMAs. Look what I'm doing up here right now, and you're going to bleep out 'molly'?

  Miley Cyrus

  Leadership, Wisdom, Reality

  "Miley Cyrus: Confessions of Pop's Wildest Child" By Josh Eells, www.rollingstone.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Tactics and strategies ought to be based on what the real world is, and we do not have the political power to do this. We're not about to shut the government down over the fact that we cannot, only controlling one house of Congress, tell the president that we're not going to fund any portion of [Obamacare]. Because we can't do that.

  Tom Coburn

  Leadership, Money, Real

  "Tom Coburn Says Republicans Pushing To Defund Obamacare Are Not Based In The ‘Real World’". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2013.

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• The claims of no people, according to established policy and usage, are respected by any nation, until they are presented in a national capacity.

  Martin Delany

  People, Claims, Capacity

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• I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?

  Barney Frank

  Believe, America, Doe

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• Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.

  Pope Francis

  Leadership, Wisdom, Money

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• If we don't have a more serious energy policy, the difference between a good day and bad day for America from here on will hinge on how the 86-year-old king of Saudi Arabia manages...change.

  Thomas Friedman

  Kings, Good Day, Bad Day

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• I'm tired of the naked, raped, beaten black woman body. I want to see an image of black femaleness that alters our universe in some way.

  Bell Hooks

  Leadership, Wisdom, Tired

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• In the months ahead, I will leave the Department of Justice, but I will never -- I will never -- leave the work. I will continue to serve and try to find ways to make our nation even more true to its founding ideals.

  Eric Holder

  Leadership, Father, Work

  Resignation Address, delivered 25 September 2014

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• The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

  John Hickenlooper

  Football, Issues, Justice

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• Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should we focus on global climate instability - droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here's the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.

  Van Jones

  Leadership, Nature, Reality

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• The ongoing war in Afghanistan is being imposed on us, and Afghans are being sacrificed in it for someone else's interests. We are not blocking the interests of the United States or other major powers. But we are demanding that if you consider Afghanistan the place from which to advance your interests, then you should also pay attention to Afghanistan's interests.

  Hamid Karzai

  Block, War, Reality

  "Interview: Karzai Says He'll Agree To Deal Once The U.S. Meets His Demands". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty interview, www.rferl.org. November 26, 2013.

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• A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.

  Rick Larsen

  Leadership, Nature, Science

  "America Is Losing The Competition For The Arctic". Interview with Deb Reichmann, www.businessinsider.com. January 01, 2014.

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• The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to blame them.

  Claire McCaskill

  Reality, White, America

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• Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. It's kleptocracy, it's corruption, it's a nation that's really only dependent upon oil and gas for their economy.

  John McCain

  Country, Money, Reality

  "Kerry, Lavrov agree to work on 'constitutional reform' in Ukraine". "The World Today", www.abc.net.au. March 17, 2014.

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• In the 2012 election, Obamacare, as it's called, and I'll be more polite - the ACA ...was a major issue in the campaign. I campaigned all over America for two months, everywhere I could. And in every single campaign rally I said, 'We have to repeal and replace Obamacare.' Well, the people spoke. They spoke, much to my dismay, but they spoke. And they reelected the President of the United States.

  John McCain

  Leadership, Party, Health

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• There is no news value to the content of those [Newtown 911] tapes. The actual audio is of no news value at all, unless you want the thrill of hearing the sound of the actual individual gunshot that might have killed a 7 year-old.

  Rachel Maddow

  Reality, Years, Justice

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• The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Believe, Race, History

  "Islamic State changes battle protocols in response to airstrikes". "AM" with Michael Vincent, www.abc.net.au. September 30, 2014.

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• The home is a woman's natural background.... From the beginning I tried to have the policy of the store reflect as nearly as it was possible in the commercial world, those standards of comfort and grace which are apparent in a lovely home.

  Hortense Odlum

  Home, Grace, Lovely

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• Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I'd ever met anybody who liked his or her plan. But that was not my experience.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Family, Mother, Strong

  "Pelosi: I Never Met 'Anybody Who Liked His or Her Plan'" by Larry Elder, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 21, 2013.

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• It is clear that the American people are weary of war. However, Assad gassing his own people is an issue of our national security, regional stability and global security.

  Nancy Pelosi

  War, Issues, People

  "Pelosi tells Obama to act on Syria" by Jonathan Allen and Jake Sherman, www.politico.com. August 29, 2013.

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• I would do almost anything Tina Fey asks me to do.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Leadership, Community, Politics

  "Nancy Pelosi Appearing on '30 Rock' Series Finale" by Michael O'Connell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 03, 2013.

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• I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he fled, [because] that is what he faced.

  Rand Paul

  Leadership, Party, Technology

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• In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a battlefield - however despicable - are guaranteed a trial by our Constitution. No one argues that Americans who commit treason shouldn't be punished. The maximum penalty for treason is death. But the Constitution specifies the process necessary to convict.

  Rand Paul

  Father, War, Technology

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• Enough of this foreign fiasco distraction. Get back to work. It is time to bomb Obamacare.

  Sarah Palin

  Health, Obamacare, Democracy

  FaceBook post by Sarah Palin from Sep 09, 2013

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