Emanuel Cleaver Quotes

#1. We have Democrats saying dumb things every single day, and Republicans as well.

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#2. The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.

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#3. Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken.

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#4. I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.

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#5. Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.

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#6. This deal is a sugar-coated satan sandwich. If you lift the bun, you will not like what you see.

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#7. Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.

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#8. [Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met.

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#9. Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.

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#10. If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception embellished them; that weakness worships them; that custom spares them; and that tyranny favors them in order to profit from the blindness of men.

Baron D'Holbach

#11. We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs.

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#12. God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.

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#13. There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.

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#14. Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings ... and lawyers.

Richard Pryor

#15. There is more power in unity than division.

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#16. Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.

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#17. We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.

Thomas Jefferson

#18. We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done.

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#19. We want to do something and a definition is a means of doing it. If we want certain results then we must use certain meanings or definitions. But no definition has any authority apart from a purpose, or to bar us from other purposes.

I. A. Richards

#20. We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.

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#21. America, I am a strong believer that how we treat each other matters.

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#22. My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

Dame Edna Everage

#23. You wheedle the soul out of things," he said.

D.H. Lawrence

#24. Let's do more than say the 'Pledge of Allegiance.' Let us live it!

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#25. First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the Methodist church. I don't know if there's a body that does not have some racists in it.

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