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I have a record that I'm so very, very proud of, and no campaign is going to take that away.

Charles Rangel

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Charles Rangel
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: June 11
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U.S. Representative
Harlem
New York
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Charles Bernard Rangel
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Thousands of people may have been killed by hurricane Katrina and many more could die in its aftermath because of the President's refusal to heed the calls of governors for help in repairing the infrastructure in their states.
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If you got problems like unemployment, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and there's a guy that's always been there for you and for your family, then you say 'He's a nice guy. I don't know where he came from or how long he's been here, but Charlie Rangel's the man.' That's what I'm relying on.
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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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Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.
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The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.
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From a high-tech point of view, an agriculture point of view, a goods-and-services point of view, a great deal of [committee Democrats] have no choice except to support allowing America access to these markets.
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If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.
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If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.
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The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.
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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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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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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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It's impossible for us to forecast what's going to happen ten years from now and make a decision today to say what we're going to do.
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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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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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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.
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As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.
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Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.
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My president will boldly throw 1 million into poverty.
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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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