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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Pakistan is a peace-loving, democratic country.
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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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Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don't vote that way.
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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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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.
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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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I love the diversity of my district, and it does drive a fair amount of my work.
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Winning isn't the end of the world
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We are all cells of a much larger body, and like the cells of our own body it is hard for us to glimpse the whole pattern of the whole of what is happening, and yet we can sense that there is a purpose, and there is a pattern.
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Fashion weeks tend to be places of refuge for outsiders.
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Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.
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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.
