Fred Upton Quotes
It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel.
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It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen.
