Byron Dorgan Quotes

#1. This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest.

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#2. I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should.

John Green

#3. All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity.

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#4. We were lazy people on an adventure, flirting with life but too shy to go all the way.

Steve Toltz

#5. As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to pay for it.

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#6. You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

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#7. This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.

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#8. I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Jorge Luis Borges

#9. For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.

Thomas Keller

#10. I had come out of a messy workplace along a messy street to a messy room and did not like it and within me was the beer that made me bold.

Sherwood Anderson

#11. If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.

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#12. If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.

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#13. Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

Elmore Leonard

#14. People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

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#15. One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle.

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#16. The taxpayers deserve accountability.

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#17. If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

Ben Bernanke

#18. Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

Bill Veeck

#19. In those times panics were common,

Alexandre Dumas

#20. President Eisenhower saw it coming, and it is here. Patriotism no longer exists among many of these corporations. Some companies have more economic clout than entire countries. They can make or break a politician.

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#21. Time tells me what I am.
I change and I am the same.
I empty myself of my life and my life remains.

Mark Strand

#22. The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.

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#23. When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety.

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#24. I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are lower taxes, less government, strong defense and family values.

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#25. I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.

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#26. I wondered if someone who had fire in their soul would have smoke coming out of their mouth.

Tarryn Fisher

#27. Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Jim Carrey

#28. I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.

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#29. When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.

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#30. This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.

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#31. The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.

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#32. We need leadership, and we need it now.

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#33. Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.

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#34. There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.

Larry Mullen Jr.

#35. When farmers and ranchers are confronted by weather-related disasters that are beyond their control, we need to do something to help.

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#36. Is there decency left in American politics?

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#37. Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do.

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#38. I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours.

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#39. There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.

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#40. There's a champion in all of us, it's how you choose to find it.

Mark McMorris

#41. I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.

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#42. No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it.

Paul Leicester Ford

#43. Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to sugarcoat this nonsense.

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