Dennis Hastert Quotes
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The President has the responsibility to tell us his thoughts on how to confront these growing problems.
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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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We need to let our people speak. We need to debate those issues and then we let the best ideas win, ... Right now, we believe the American people stand behind us. They want to see us preserve Social Security, they want us to keep the budget balanced and we're going to do our level best to do it.
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The wrong way to step forward in this campaign.
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Let's hope that we can put this lawsuit behind us.
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We welcome him to this cathedral of democracy and look forward to hearing from him.
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Whatever we do, before putting in billions of dollars, let's make sure lives are not put in jeopardy.
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The president exhibited mature and responsible leadership throughout this tense situation.
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The Clinton Administration has been downsizing the military for the last seven years, and the Kosovo crisis has exposed how our national security is now in real danger.
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America's economy is resilient, and I am confident that Republican pro-growth policies will continue to keep our economy growing - just as it has since after the September 2001 terrorist attacks.
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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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House Republicans have taken the lead in providing America with price stability and a bold plan for this nation's energy future.
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To have good energy policy we have to have good investments.
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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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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.
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It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed.
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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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This is just a great day for the American people. This is a great win for the American people.
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This bill lets our nation fight back by renewing important provisions that allow information sharing among government agencies and increased penalties for those who commit terrorist crimes. It strikes the right balance between protecting lives and liberty.
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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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Republicans believe that the federal government plays a limited but very important federal role in education. We simply want to help schools get the money that they need to improve education without so many Washington strings attached.
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I invite my Democratic colleagues to join in this effort, ... We all agree that in many areas, the initial relief response to Hurricane Katrina was unacceptable at the local, state and federal levels.
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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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We support common-sense legislation that keeps guns out of the hands of unsupervised children.