Henry Waxman Quotes

#1. What we now have in Iraq is a defeat.

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#2. Saddam Hussein has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do.

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#3. If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, it makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all!

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#4. Americans are sick and tired of political gamesmanship.

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#5. I don't think everybody has a right to a weapon which can be used to kill innocent people and maybe threaten the life of a president of the United States.

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#6. The routine promotion of condoms through advertising has been stopped by networks who are so hypocritically priggish that they refuse to describe disease control as they promote disease transmission.

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#7. Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

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#8. While vast sums of money are being siphoned off into hidden [military] coffers, Americas schools, hospitals and public services are facing cutbacks and closures.

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#9. The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.

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