Charles Rangel Quotes

#1. Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?

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#2. Enough is enough. This is how we get started in Vietnam.

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#3. My president will boldly throw 1 million into poverty.

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#4. If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.

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#5. Well, I really think that shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

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#6. I assume the president's going to say he got bad intelligence ... I think that wherever you see poverty, whether it's in the white rural community or the black urban community, you see that the resources have been sucked up into the war and tax cuts for the rich.

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#7. From a high-tech point of view, an agriculture point of view, a goods-and-services point of view, a great deal of [committee Democrats] have no choice except to support allowing America access to these markets.

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#8. It's impossible for us to forecast what's going to happen ten years from now and make a decision today to say what we're going to do.

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#9. I never thought I'd miss Nancy Reagan. There can't be a rating [on the Clinton drug policy] when there hasn't been a performance.

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#10. I was motivated to join in large part because my family needed the money. I would like to say how patriotic we were, but really what motivated me was the excitement my mother would get in receiving a check for my older brother.

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#11. Im sick and tired of politicians beating up on the IRS. We have the best and fairest tax-collection system in the world.

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