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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.
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Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.
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Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.
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There is no room for Christians in today's Democratic Party.
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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.
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Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.
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Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.
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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.
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.
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My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.
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We are disappointed by the Supreme Court's decision not to review the D.C. Circuit's ruling that government officials do not have the right to have confidential communications with government attorneys about official business.
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I tend to go back and forth between old favourites and "new" stuff, some of which could easily be by authors I've hitherto heard about but haven't had the chance to catch up with.
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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
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Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.
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Why is it braver to be a single mother versus being with a partner? Being in a couple and having a child could be more challenging because there might be conflict if the male partner cannot understand the extreme attachment a woman feels when she has a child.
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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.
