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 are ever mindful the risks our troops face every day and the sacrifices made by the families and the communities that support them as those who have been removed from power seek to delay their inevitable defeat.
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.
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Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.
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I do wash my hands in innocency, before God and the face of you, good Christian people this day.
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A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.
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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.
