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Former U S Congressman Inspirational Quotes (40)

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Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.
Jim Leach
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When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation.
Doug Ose
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Imagine for a moment Napoleon I, to have borne the name of Jenkins, or Washington to have sustained the appellation of John Smith!
Artemas Ward
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I like the analogy that the way that we live in Western Society, the energy that we consume in the form of fossil fuels, is the energy equivalent in pre-fossil fuel terms of having 500 slaves.
John Lindsay
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I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.
Jim Leach
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All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream.
John Salazar
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How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the country they fought for won't take care of them when they come back? In the time of war our troops and their families are supposed to be our number one priority.
John Salazar
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You've got to be happy if they get your facts right. Since January I don't think I've recognized a damned thing that I've filed. I just pour everything out of the boot. Otherwise you get a phone call at three in the morning asking why you left out that the candidate had his teeth drilled that morning.
John Lindsay
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We need a president who understands the contributions and values of rural America, a president who understands the men and women who are up at 5 a.m. every day to grow the food that we put on our tables.
John Salazar
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Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature sometimes baser instincts.
Jim Leach
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Let's have the Union restored as it was, if we can but if we can't, I'm in favor of the Union as it wasn't.
Artemas Ward
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We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all - especially for young physicians - we ought to throw in no medicine at all - to abstain - to observe a wise and masterly inactivity.
John Randolph of Roanoke
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There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.
Jim Leach
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We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.
Artemas Ward
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If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.
Jim Leach
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I prefer temperance hotels - although they sell worse kinds of liquor than any other kind of hotels.
Artemas Ward
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Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.
John Lindsay
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I try to build the things so that they're fairly indestructible. I've learned from my mistakes and some of those units, even if human life disappears from the planet, will still be recognizable a thousand years from now abandoned somewhere in the woods.
John Lindsay
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I would like to see a contribution-free election that permitted the people to vote as opposed to corporations. There really ought to be no money in the system except what an individual voter or citizen contributes out of his or her own pocket.
Mickey Edwards
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What does it mean to have a Republican majority in the House? A lot of people think So what? They should think again.
Doug Ose
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The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.
Artemas Ward
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I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars.
Jim Leach
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Clearly, high energy prices will have a large negative effect on the California economy and could possibly drag the rest of the nation into a recession.
Doug Ose
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America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.
Jim Leach
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