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Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
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But it was very hard for people to separate me out from Hillary Clinton. All their ads were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and me. They said I was more liberal than these guys, and that if I went to Washington I'd be supporting their agenda. I found that extremely difficult to overcome.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Source: Speech Democracy and Education (1896) -
Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.
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Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives.
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Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.
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Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
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Earlier today we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States. 'We the people.' It is a very eloquent beginning. But, when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that 'We, the people.' I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But, through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, t
Source: Statement before House Judiciary Committee considering impeachment of Richard Nixon, 25 July 1974 -
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
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Every time Washington regulators pass down another heavy-handed rule or levy another hefty fine, Colorado loses potential jobs, revenue, and economic security.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrant has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.
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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
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From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
Source: Up From Slavery (1901) Ch. I: A Slave Among Slaves
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