Top 42 Jim Clyburn Quotes
#1. I admire and respect Bill Clinton. I think he was a great president.
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#2. We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.
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#3. Rep. James Clyburn, the state's only black congressman
controls 20 percent to 25 percent of the primary vote.
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#4. But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.
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#5. Two new reports indicate that, under Bush, the Army is overstretched and under enormous strain. The National Guard and reserves have been weakened and we are experiencing numerous recruiting problems.
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#6. Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.
Aristotle.
#7. In particular, the emerging call from our nation's evangelicals to protect God's creation is substantial.
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#8. Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.
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#9. Fairy tales were the door to the world of imagination for me as a child, that land I often lived in when real life wasn't quite enough.
Regan Walker
#10. Education is the great equalizer, and shouldn't be limited to the wealthiest few.
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#11. When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course.
John Cale
#12. Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.
Stephen Hawking
#13. Democrats are committed to mapping a new direction in Iraq, and we will work with the President and the new Defense Secretary to ensure that the will of the American people guides our future actions.
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#14. I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterday's election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld.
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#15. Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.
Frederick Sanger
#16. Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.
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#17. I have always abhorred the word 'racism.' I never use it.
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#18. If you can just immerse yourself in your life, it doesn't matter what you do everyday. Just do it intensely. Be in it, so that when you go to sleep you're exhausted every night and you say, 'Whoa, I just couldn't have done any more with that day.'
Diana Nyad
#19. The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.
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#20. I'm heartened by the growing awareness of global warming among important communities and organizations in our nation.
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#22. I like a funny girl. Smart. Talented. I like someone who is good at music - that always intrigues me.
Tom Felton
#23. I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.
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#25. I mulled over what he had told me as I savored the Scotch. Not bad, really - like a beer that's been in a brawl.
David Justice
#27. Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need.
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#28. Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this Administration to better define that mission and a realistic expectation of success in Iraq.
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#29. We have stabilized our economy. We took over a very sick economy, and we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. We have stopped the hemorrhaging. In fact, we had 140,000 job growth last month. And that's what I call progress.
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#30. The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don't want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled.
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#31. Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.
John C. Maxwell
#32. Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering - you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.
Baal Shem Tov
#33. Our tests, our approaches...are ridiculously inadequate. They only show us deficits, they do not show us powers; they only show us puzzles and schemata, when we need to see music, narrative, play, a being conducting itself spontaneously in its own natural way.
Oliver Sacks
#34. Has he paid his dues? Is he black enough? ... John Lewis and I were out there marching and organizing sit-ins back in the '60s so that his children and my children would not have to do it ... We would have been failures if had to do the same things we did.
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#35. Seek to be an oasis of caring and concern as you live your life.
Dalai Lama XIV
#36. Last week in the Homeland Security Committee, Republicans were against port security; and today, one week after Democrats unveiled our Real Security Agenda, they're for it.
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#37. Democrats are fighting for a new direction that includes protecting Social Security as well as making healthcare affordable, bringing down the high cost of gasoline, and making higher education more accessible for all Americans.
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#38. The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up.
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#39. We are hopeful about the opportunities ahead, and stand ready to join this President in an open and honest dialogue about improving the state of our union for all Americans not the select few.
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#40. A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.
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#41. Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.
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#42. Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.
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