Collin Peterson Quotes

If everybody in our caucus had a 50/50 Democrat/Republican district, we'd have a lot different discussion. But if they have a 90 percent Democratic district, they don't ever talk to a Republican, they don't have to and they don't want to.

Collin Peterson

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• I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.

  

  Gail Collins
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• I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.

  

  Ed Rollins
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• Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.

  

  Rand Paul
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• It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

  

  Ed Gillespie
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• Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
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• There is no room for Christians in today's Democratic Party.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
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• Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

  

  Dan Quayle
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• Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

  

  Dan Harmon
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• I'm so Republican, my first name starts with 'R.' I'm so right-wing - well, Randy Weber. You do the math.

  

  Randy Weber
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• There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these are books for adults. Actually, they're just stories, and if they're good stories, then they surpass those boundaries.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
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• Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don't vote that way.

  

  Adam Carolla
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• Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.

  

  Rand Paul
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• The Democrats' foreign policy is bad for Europe and deadly for Hungary. The migration and foreign policy advocated by the Republican candidate, Mr. Trump, is good for Europe and vital for Hungary.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

  

  Rand Paul
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• The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

  

  Rand Paul
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• To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
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• We want all these trees to grow straight and live long. This is a good day.

  

  J. M. Roberts
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• Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets us, come out in the end in better shape than the glib and ready reproducer, its passions being deeper, its purposes more worthy, its combining power less commonplace, and its total mental output consequently more important.

  

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• Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.

  

  Akbar Ganji
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• Twenty or 30 years ago, psychiatrists and other physicians believed that childhood was a happy time. We had a belief that psychiatric disorders didn't begin until a child reached puberty or after. That wasn't based on science. It was based on the philosophical sense that children are always happy.

  

  Bernd Weidung Modern Talking
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• If everybody in our caucus had a 50/50 Democrat/Republican district, we'd have a lot different discussion. But if they have a 90 percent Democratic district, they don't ever talk to a Republican, they don't have to and they don't want to.

  

  Collin Peterson
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