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A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
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
Charles Rangel
Charles Bernard Rangel
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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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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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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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We all have a large stake in preserving our democracy, but I maintain that those without power in our society, the black, the brown, the poor of all colors, have the largest stake not because we have the most to lose, but because we have worked the hardest, and given the most, for what we have achieved.
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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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The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.
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The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.
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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 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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Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.
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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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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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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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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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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 have a record that I'm so very, very proud of, and no campaign is going to take that away.
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The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.
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I am running for re-election no matter who runs.
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