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I've been beat up pretty badly. Pretty badly. Yet at the end of the day, everyone says I'm doing a pretty good job.

Charles Rangel

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Charles Rangel
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: June 11
Lawyer
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U.S. Representative
Harlem
New York
Charles Rangel
Charles Bernard Rangel
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We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.
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I never thought I'd miss Nancy Reagan. There can't be a rating [on the Clinton drug policy] when there hasn't been a performance.
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There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.
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Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.
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Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.
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I don't want to respond to rumors that have no basis at all... But I am willing to respond to questions that the public and the press should know.
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Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.
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Im sick and tired of politicians beating up on the IRS. We have the best and fairest tax-collection system in the world.
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I was motivated to join in large part because my family needed the money. I would like to say how patriotic we were, but really what motivated me was the excitement my mother would get in receiving a check for my older brother.
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The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.
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The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.
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Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.
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My president will boldly throw 1 million into poverty.
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Enough is enough. This is how we get started in Vietnam.
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I don't know whether the number of any particular Latino group has made or will make any particular difference in the issues that I am concerned with.
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Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.
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Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.
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As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.
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Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.
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As a Korean War Veteran I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.
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