Dennis Hastert Quotes
Congress has always been for the people and by the people. And in keeping with the great traditions of our country, we need to keep it that way.

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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
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I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.
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It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.
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The reason I decided to run for Senate is one of my responsibilities as governor is to make sure that the voices of our people and our small businesses in New Hampshire are heard in Washington and that we continue to make the type of progress we're making here at the state level; we need that same type of response and progress in Washington.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.
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I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
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You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.
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And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
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I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.
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In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.
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Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.
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People will survive anything for their children.
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We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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Congress has always been for the people and by the people. And in keeping with the great traditions of our country, we need to keep it that way.