Dennis Hastert Quotes
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This is no time to pick a leader who is weak on the war and wrong on taxes. George W. Bush is a strong leader with the right vision for America.
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Trade votes in the US Congress are never really easy things.
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There may be some things we think will make the bill better, ... It certainly will be in consultation with the White House. But, you know, the president set the limit and I think that's what we're going to work for.
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I would hope that the president would come forward on a timely basis and do two things: Lay this out to the Congress and the American people, and also come forward with a plan for how we're going to pay for it.
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Mr. Tenet had a monumental task to rebuild human intelligence-gathering capabilities devastated by eight years of liberal Clinton administration policies.
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I reiterated again that if there is a large dollar number, and an agreement, talk to us, because we have to appropriate that money.
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By keeping the Internet free of discriminatory taxes, we've encouraged companies and consumers to do their business in the electronic marketplace, ... Congress originally enacted the moratorium to prevent thousands of state and local taxing jurisdictions from using the Internet as a cash cow. Rather than slow down the Internet with a slew of new taxes, we ought to extend the moratorium to allow the Web to reach its full potential.
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Death just shouldn't be a taxable event.
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Getting our affected Gulf Coast states the aid they need to help victims and rebuild communities continues to be our highest priority. Today's passage is the second aid package in recent days, and it illustrates one thing: this Congress is serious about doing everything we can to help local, state and federal officials respond to this crisis.
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Congress will not use Social Security as a pot of gold to fund foreign aid.
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I think there are some areas we can work together on to try to find some compromises.
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You start out with pick a few good simple things to get done, build trust, build that bipartisan feeling if you can.
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This involved some long, hard work, but we got a good bipartisan effort to make this bill work.
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John McCain ought to visit our young men and women at Walter Reed and Bethesda. There is sacrifice in this country.
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We stand firmly behind Tom DeLay and ask that he be afforded the same rights as every other American -- that is innocent until proven otherwise.
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What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.
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We have an agenda that we want to move through.
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I'm not real happy that we are here this late in the session, ... But we are not going to be pushed out of town with a bad deal.
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We're very, very happy with the decisions we've made.
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The United States has a rich immigrant background and continues to benefit from the arrival of law-abiding citizens of other cultures and nationalities. But in this age of terrorism we cannot be lax when it comes to controlling our borders.
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It is important that when we rebuild this historic city that we consider the safety of the citizens first.
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On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.
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His theory fails a basic test of real economics.
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The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool.