Edmund Morris Quotes
In 1902, the Senator had been banned from the White House for punching out a colleague, mid-debate.
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The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.
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When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.
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It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey.
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After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.
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I never, ever, when I entered this process of running for president of the United States, thought I would be excluded from the debate table. Ever. What does two terms as governor get you?
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The White House tapes, the recordings that Nixon made of his conversations in office, have long been recognized as a marvel of verbal incontinence.
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I'm moderating one of the presidential primary debates right after I've had a baby. I'm sitting in a dirty closet on the floor behind the auditorium where this debate is taking place between Obama, Hillary Clinton, and I'm pumping breast milk... twenty minutes before I'm going on.
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The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.
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There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.
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I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
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Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to reach back, and I don't think that's happened and it's been disappointing because the debate in our country has become so rancorous.
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While some debate its helpfulness at generating monetizable traffic, when Digg points to a story, huge audience spikes quickly follow.
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In a way, the debate about Margaret Thatcher in Britain has just gotten fossilized in this notion that she is either this she-devil who wrecked the industrial base of the country and ruined the lives of millions, or she is the blessed Margaret who saved the nation and rescued us from our post-war decline.
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Senator Barack Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who I think can do great things for our country.
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I know what’s best for the President. I put him in the White house. He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not.
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Discrimination and bigotry have no place in our society, and I believe Senator (Rick) Santorum's unfortunate remarks undermine Republican principles of inclusion and opportunity.
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I knew of Senator [George] Mitchell because he was very close friends with who was soon to be the senior senator, Paul Sarbanes. Paul Sarbanes and George Mitchell were kind of pals together.
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Today in Washington, D.C., several government buildings were left without power. Of course, the White House will be without power for two more years.
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What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?
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We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.
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Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.
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In 1902, the Senator had been banned from the White House for punching out a colleague, mid-debate.
