Wright Patman Quotes
Also, the Federal Advisory Committee should be enlarged and reorganized. Members should be chosen for the broadest possible representation of the public interest, their main qualification: ability.
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For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
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Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
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We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
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Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
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Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
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The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
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The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.
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In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.
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You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.
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I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.
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If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.
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We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget.
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Why would you want to do something and not be special and want the best?
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You do not have the right to destroy someone else’s dignity because you have none yourself!
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Also, the Federal Advisory Committee should be enlarged and reorganized. Members should be chosen for the broadest possible representation of the public interest, their main qualification: ability.
