Dennis Hastert Quotes
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We ought to take a second look at it. But you know we build Los Angeles and San Francisco on top of earthquake fissures and they rebuild too. Stubbornness.
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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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You can see there's still a lot of decisions to be made.
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We believe we need to stimulate this economy.
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We kind of touched base on where we were, ... I think we reached a tentative understanding. He wanted to take it to the Democrat caucus.
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We're willing to look at offsets if there are viable offsets.
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You know, when companies who have made a commitment and have legacy costs and all of a sudden want to walk away from that commitment and lay it on the federal government, that's a problem. It's a fiscal problem for us.
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This is an eye-opening experience, ... I think all members of Congress should come here.
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Unless the federal government adopts New Orleans as its ward and pays all its bills for the next 20 years--an unlikely to absurd proposition--the place won't be rebuilt.
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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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Advocating that the city be abandoned or relocated.
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It is something that will help the economy.
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We will start by providing relief from the unfair marriage penalty tax.
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The vote we cast today will help ensure our continued prosperity.
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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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He wants to spend more on education and other issues. We think we need to spend more on education. But those dollars need to go directly to those school districts and not bureaucracies, ... Late Edition.
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What we wanted to do is get the commission report out as quickly as possible so if there are problems, we can solve those problems.
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I know that the news of dismal economic forecasts and the layoffs in the technology sector has some people in the industry worried.
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The American people are really kind of tired of this finger-pointing issue and politics all the time, ... I think it would behoove all of us to work together to try to find the answers.
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I hope everybody understands that you are innocent until you're proven guilty, ... And he will fight this, and we give him our utmost support.
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Our vote count is coming along quite well.
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We need to look at this in a comprehensive way, ... There is no magic wand to wave over this.
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Today, the hopes and dreams of millions of Iraqis are closer to becoming an everyday reality -- a free, democratic government is literally at hand.
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Both sides can be proud of this accord.