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Former U S Senator Inspirational Quotes (241)

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Man is remembered by his deeds.
Knute Nelson
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We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.
Evan Bayh
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During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.
Everett Dirksen
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I speak as briefly as possible because too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism. I speak as simply as possible because the issue is too great to be obscured by eloquence. I speak simply and briefly in the hope that my words will be taken to heart.
Margaret Chase Smith
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Diplomacy has been exhausted .. Continued instability in the Balkans threatens important U.S. national interests,.
Tom Daschle
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Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong
John Foster Dulles
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A good coach must celebrate in private. He cannot gloat to the press after a victory or criticize heavily after defeat... His game is of such motivation and strategy that only a few people understand his craft.
Bill Bradley
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I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.
Frank B. Kellogg
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It's a terrible thing that we cannot really trust the FDA or NCI (National Cancer Institute). We need, therefore, an independent scientific investigation.
Paul Douglas
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Freedom unexercised may be freedom forfeited. The preservation of freedom is in the hands of the people themselves - not of the government.
Margaret Chase Smith
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I love working for the people of Indiana. I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress.
Evan Bayh
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Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.
Elihu Root
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The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
Bill Bradley
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As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by the economic power of the big unions.
Margaret Chase Smith
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Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.
Frank B. Kellogg
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You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.
Knute Nelson
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Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness, we can and we will.
Bill Bradley
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I am not gay. I don't do these kinds of things.
Larry Craig
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Strength, the American way, is not manifested by threats of criminal prosecution or police state methods. Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.
Margaret Chase Smith
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Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'
Evan Bayh
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Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts, Peace, too, requires well-directed and sustained sacrificial endeavor. Given that, we can, I believe, achieve the great goal of our foreign policy, that of enabling our people to enjoy in peace the blessings of liberty.
John Foster Dulles
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Mr. President at this time it is suicide, murder, and will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountain to ocean, and legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death.
Robert Toombs
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No more slave States and no more slave territory.
Salmon P. Chase
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Filibusters should require 35 senators to... make a commitment to continually debate an issue in reality, not just in theory. The number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster should be reduced to 55 from 60.
Evan Bayh
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