John Chafee Quotes
You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until 1493.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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How did abortion and birth control impact the congressional race of Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Buerkle or the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? I don't know. But I think the so-called social issues were front and center in the minds of voters. These issues may indeed have lost the Republicans some elections.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.
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We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.
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Just collecting a ZIP code is not nearly as good as having data like this.
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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
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You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.
