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American Politician Inspirational Quotes (833)

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But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.
Sherwood Boehlert
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If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.
Stewart Udall
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We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.
Barbara Jordan
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We can certainly defuse the intensity of the anti-immigrant feeling if we can bring some reality to the discussion by showing that they are not using that many resources.
Barbara Jordan
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Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.
Alexander H. Stephens
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Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles on the inside of it are science and no miracles.
Horace Mann
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We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.
William Henry Ashley
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Think I'll win. Could be big.
Bob Dole
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The best thing to know is what you don't know.
Christine Quinn
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For the first 10 years of my life in Congress, I had been too timid to tell the truth as I saw it. In a way I had betrayed my trust.
Emanuel Celler
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It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.
Gerrit Smith
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I don't think anything will change until Americans revolt and get it into their heads that they need to be informed voters instead of just listening to the paid political ads.
Deborah Pryce
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things never seem as bad as they are.
Craig L. Rice
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Certain black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: 'If I lay my hand on you, you're OK.' So many people have made a living off of the pimping of race.
Douglas Wilder
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our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.
Craig L. Rice
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I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest.
Martin Frost
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I assume I'm being taped everywhere, so I never worry about that.
Nikki Haley
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You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.
Douglas Wilder
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Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings.
Curt Weldon
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There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach.
John S. Herrington
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America is pretty split.
Jolene Ivey
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Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
Horace Mann
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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.
Horace Mann
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My grandfather was Catholic my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.
Emanuel Celler
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