Kay Bailey Hutchison Quotes
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The traditional role of the Senate has been to be the adult in the room.
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Saying you're from Texas makes you kind of proud.
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I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.
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I just don't see anonymous sources as fair against a candidate. I think if someone has a real concern, they should come out and say it.
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When I became the first woman to represent the state of Texas in the United State Senate, it was with the help of a lot of women - and a large number of men, too.
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Harriet Miers is totally qualified for the Supreme Court of the United States. Her legal background, her absolute leadership in the legal field when she was a practicing lawyer are unqualified.
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Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.
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For our country to be safe from terrorists we must stabilize Iraq and show that it can be done and take out these terrorist organizations who would harm Americans. Our freedom is at stake here.
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I want to thank the people of Texas for asking me to represent them in Washington.
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We are battling fanatics who kidnap and behead civilians and shoot fleeing children in the back. There can be no dialogue with such people, and the American people understand this.
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We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women.
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Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships.
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And secondly, I certainly hope that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality where they couldn't indict on the crime and so they go to something just to show that their two years of investigation was not a waste of time and taxpayer dollars.
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People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing.
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I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what is necessary now when it is less painful and less expensive.
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I have always been able to rise above the expectations.
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The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing.
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We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have been true to that calling and helped spread freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere.
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I am not a moderate. I am a conservative. I'm a fix-it conservative.
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Congress can't take the year off, election or no election.
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I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.
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When it comes to dividing Americans on the basis of their gender, I know a little something about the subject.
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My dad was a workaholic. I saw him work seven days a week.
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I think when you've been in office for a long time, you have a record, and that record is fair game.