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I don't think we need more gun control laws. - John Kennedy
I don't think we need more gun control laws.John Kennedy
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Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find.James Carville
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Sometimes the weight of expectations, of doing anything, can be a little bit heavy.John F. Kennedy Jr.
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Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.Robin S. Sharma
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.Ralph Nader
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Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.Paul P. Harris
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Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.James Otis
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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. - William Jennings Bryan
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.William Jennings Bryan
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There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.Gloria Allred
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In contrast to what most prosecutors do, we try to treat all individuals with complete fairness. We do not go out and hold press conferences and the like.Ken Starr
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Every institution, including the judiciary has its share of black sheep and corrupt judges. - Prashant Bhushan
Every institution, including the judiciary has its share of black sheep and corrupt judges.Prashant Bhushan
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I have two delightful sons, who I love dearly.Charles Keating
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We have to tighten our gun laws and keep guns out of the hands of criminals, the mentally ill, and domestic abusers.Richard Cordray
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In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story - by the people as a whole - and not by the little things.Christopher Darden
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The current FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler, is highly regarded, but some distrust him because he is the former head lobbyist of both the cable and wireless phone industries. He's also made some statements suggesting he doesn't understand or opposes network neutrality.Marvin Ammori
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Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.Jacques Verges
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Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. - William Ruckelshaus
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.William Ruckelshaus
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When you talk about mandatory minimums, it created a lot of unfairness in our sentencing.Asa Hutchinson
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.Nathalie Sarraute
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Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.Eliot Spitzer
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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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We have a duty to show up in the world with meaning and purpose and commitment to doing good. And to use any privilege that we have to make positive change and to disrupt oppressive systems.Meena Harris
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I am a straightforward man.Lajos Kossuth
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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.Robert Green Ingersoll
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.Albert Pike
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There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.Elliot Richardson
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I don't have two different personalities. I am what I am. - Judy Sheindlin
I don't have two different personalities. I am what I am.Judy Sheindlin
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.Bella Abzug
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When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.Alan Dershowitz
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When you're biracial, people sort of make you gray - you're not black, you're not white, you're sort of gray; you're 'other.' And I'm fortunate to have parents that were strong enough to say, 'You're not 'other.' You're special.'Sunny Hostin
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You know you're a bigot when you can't take out the word 'Muslim' from a sentence you stated and replace it with 'Jew' and still have it be socially acceptable.Cenk Uygur
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When you are in local government, you are on the ground, and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the people you are there to serve. It teaches you to listen; it teaches you to be expansive in the people with whom you talk to, and I think that that engagement gives you political judgment.Valerie Jarrett
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The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing.Edwin M. Stanton
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The corruption that hides in plain sight is the real threat to our democracy.Zephyr Teachout
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Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.Walter F. Mondale
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Everybody faces pain. Everybody has trauma.Hunter Biden
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I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.Belva Lockwood
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I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.Rachel Sklar
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We are a nation founded on distrust of government power, and questioning that power is essential to promoting transparency and accountability.Asha Rangappa
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Our founders recognized that 'men were not angels' and that checks and balances in government were critical to avoid threats to the rule of law.Neal Katyal
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If it doen't make sense, you should find for the defense.Johnnie Cochran
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For me, it's all about channeling the mistakes I've made and just saying all the things I wish somebody had said to me. I say to boys as much as girls: You've got to hold your chest high, and no matter what, you don't let the other side intimidate you.Lisa Blatt
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For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.Derek Bok
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Reconciliation and forgiveness can actually help all of us move on in a healthier, happier way.Chesa Boudin
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I'm the daughter of refugees. The immigrant mentality is to work hard, be brave, and never give up in your pursuit of achieving the American dream.Reshma Saujani
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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.Clarence Darrow
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A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.Louis Nizer
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In Jordan, where the prime minister is always a commoner, the king has announced some new reforms that would tend to move the country toward a more democratic system: Notably, the prime minister would emerge from the victorious political party, not from back room conversations in the royal palace.Elliott Abrams
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The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.Howard Cosell
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He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.George Carman
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When like-minded people, talking mostly with one another, end up thinking a more extreme version of what they thought before they started to talk... If you put a bunch of rebels in a room and ask them to discuss rebellion, they'll get more extreme.Cass Sunstein
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Oh, I think Canadians look like all sorts of people. That's the beauty of Canada.Jagmeet Singh
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OK, look, I just - I think that - I think everyone underestimates the power of an autonomy of every individual to make their own decision.Emily Compagno
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After the verdict was read in the Simpson case, as the jury was leaving, one of them, I was later told, said, 'We think he probably did it. We just didn't think they proved it beyond a reasonable doubt.'Marcia Clark
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When you look at the trajectory of autonomous vehicles, I think you can look at the trajectory of other industries whether it's aviation, I think is a really good one to look at, and you'll see there's always an evolution as the technology gets better and better.Tony West
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The Framers of the Constitution expected the presidency to be occupied by special individuals, selfless people of the highest character and ability. They intended the Electoral College to be a truly deliberative body, not the largely ceremonial institution it has become today.George T. Conway III
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I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.Roy Cohn
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A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.Elizabeth Edwards
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The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who 'disappeared'. That's what the candle is for. - Peter Benenson
The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who 'disappeared'. That's what the candle is for.Peter Benenson
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Senator Gillibrand is good at saying things that sound nice but have little substance. I don't think we elect our public officials to avoid taking a stand or a difficult position on anything.Wendy Long
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