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.
Aaron McGruder
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I have a very small public.
V. S. Naipaul
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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.
B. B. King
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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.
Calvin Coolidge
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When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.
Kate Brown
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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.
J. G. Ballard
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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
Lajos Kossuth
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We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.
Barry Corbin
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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.
Rabih Alameddine
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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.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
Abraham Lincoln
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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.
Wendell Phillips
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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We count on the FEC to be the public's watchdog.
Ted Deutch
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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.
Naftali Bennett
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I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Samuel Johnson
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The public has become my fairy godmother.
Eartha Kitt
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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.
Uma Thurman
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Augusto Pinochet
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It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.
Oscar Wilde
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It's politically impossible for any member of Congress to make a public statement condemning or criticizing the policies of Israel. It would be political suicidal for them to do so.
Jimmy Carter
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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.
Evan Bayh