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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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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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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In countries where there is great private wealth, much may be effected by the voluntary contributions of patriotic individuals; but in a community situated like that of the United States, the public purse must supply the deficiency of private resource. In what can it be so useful, as in prompting and improving the efforts of industry?
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I'm extremely patriotic. I'll always be Canadian.
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All bad art is the result of good intentions.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.
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Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
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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.
