Dennis Hastert Quotes
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We passed an ambitious tax relief package last year, which the president decided to veto, ... This year we will continue to fight for tax relief for working families.
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For every dollar we spend on this means a dollar that's going to take a little bit longer to balance the budget.
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You can't jam change down the American people's throat.
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The two priorities have to find a commonality. That's what this negotiation is about.
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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.
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...have been here 20, 25 years, are integrated into the system, have children who are American citizens and, quite frankly, don't have a home to go back to in another country.
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It's just working people one by one, one at a time.
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Just like families must live within their budgets, the Federal Government must live within its means. We have passed appropriations bills that have been fiscally responsible while recognizing our national priorities.
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We've got a solid balanced approach, ... No one has any idea what the cost implication would be if you went too far.
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We still have much work to do. The American people care little about procedure, but they care a lot about final results.
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When you really look in depth, the reason we're losing people offshore is the inequity of our tax code as compared to our competitors overseas.
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We want to learn from this effort so that every level of government is prepared when the next emergency occurs, ... follows long established precedence from similar investigations under both Democratic and Republican majorities.
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We need to clarify it. We need to work on it. We will continue to do that.
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It's a tough time my friends. We need to make sacrifices to ensure our troops have the tools they need in order to get the job done. This budget will help us win the War on Terror.
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Tom has done an outstanding job as a chairman of our Government Reform Committee, ... He is a deliberate thinker with a knack for details. So I'm anxious to see the good work that he will do.
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These companies need to invest in America's energy infrastructure and resources. ... The oil companies need to do their part.
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We have some work that we have to finish up. We had a meeting with the White House last night to try to start to lay out those parameters of getting done.
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If I were the president, I'd call the Congress back on the second of January to finish the work, ... I plan to have a talk with the president today.
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The president and I agree that we need to bring closure to the remaining differences between the House and Senate.
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The Kerry plan is simple: Add more money to our national deficit, spend more money here in Washington, raise taxes on job creation.
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The wrong way to step forward in this campaign.
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Working people are bearing the brunt of the EPA's inaction.
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It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed.
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There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.