I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."
Will Rogers
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It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working
for you.
Will Rogers
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Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Will Rogers
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Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation,
it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.
Will Rogers
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On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the
only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what
it does.
Will Rogers
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The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord
can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on,
then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
Will Rogers
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The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't
get worse every time Congress meets.
Will Rogers
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There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season
on senators.
Will Rogers
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We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize
the rights of others.
Will Rogers
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You can't say that civilization don't advance; for in every war they
kill you a new way.
Will Rogers
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When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised
the I.Q. of both states.
Will Rogers
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Countries that do not control knowledge and information tend to do
better because the average guy who is exposed to a lot of information can get ideas
and profit from them.
Tom Clancy
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In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train
station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
Tom Clancy
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The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly
in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control
information, you can control people.
Tom Clancy
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There are people in government who don't want other people to know
what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism.
Tom Clancy
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CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where
Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance
or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.
William J. Clinton
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Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden
did, and as far as we know he's still alive.
William J. Clinton
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One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr.,
President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling
Dr. King's legacy.
Hillary Clinton
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The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to
be something they're not.
Hillary Clinton
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Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a
moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
Hillary Clinton
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Dick Cheney is a constant reminder of those things the White House
would most like to forget: the bullying, the intelligence failures, the inability
to pacify Iraq, the misuse of classified information and the breathtaking incompetence
that seems to be spread throughout the administration.
John Conyers
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According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe
that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and that it would stay even
is asked by the Iraqi government to leave.
John Conyers
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I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone
in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can
be safely done.
John Conyers
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Mr. Chairman, the price for continuing this war is too high, not
only in budgetary terms, but in American lives, Iraqi civilian casualties blamed
on America and in the steady increase in the terrorist ranks that this war is provoking
around the globe.
John Conyers
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Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are
just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.
John Conyers
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The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq,
as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist
recruiters build their numbers across the globe.
John Conyers
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There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that
the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage
in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens.
John Conyers
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I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and
judgment dictates to
be right, without the yoke of any party on me.
Davy Crockett
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I would rather be beaten and be a man than to be elected and be a
little puppy dog.
Davy Crockett
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We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the
living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
Davy Crockett
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