Evan Bayh Quotes
Many good people serve in Congress. They are patriotic, hard-working, and devoted to the public good as they see it, but the institutional and cultural impediments to change frustrate the intentions of these well-meaning people as rarely before.
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.
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The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.
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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
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We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.
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I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.
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The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
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Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
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We count on the FEC to be the public's watchdog.
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I am proud of religious Zionism. I am proud of the members of religious Zionism because it is a true ideological public.
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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The armed forces have acted today solely from the patriotic inspiration of saving the country from the tremendous chaos into which it was being plunged by the Marxist government of Salvador Allende.… The Junta will maintain judicial power and consultantship of the Comptroller. The Chambers will remain in recess until further orders. That is all.
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Some of those who crafted the Constitution had serious doubts about tax-supported clergy. James Madison, for example, wrote that such employment was a “palpable violation of equal rights as well as Constitutional principles” and a “national establishment” of religion.10 He suggested that if Congress wanted chaplains to discharge religious duties, members should pay for them from their own pockets. “How just would it be in its principle!” he proclaimed.
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In America, we have anti-nepotism laws in the federal government and in lots of state governments, because the practice of hiring relatives undermines public confidence that the government official is actually finding best person for the job.
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Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.
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The one who admonishes his brother secretly, he has advised sincerely and has honored him. If he does it outwardly (among others) then he has dishonored and shamed him.
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Many good people serve in Congress. They are patriotic, hard-working, and devoted to the public good as they see it, but the institutional and cultural impediments to change frustrate the intentions of these well-meaning people as rarely before.
