Ed Markey Quotes

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• Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

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  Opportunity, Ladders, Investment

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• We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.

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  Vote, Loved Ones, Brighter Future

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• Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

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  Children, Population, Our Future

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• Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.

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  Educational, World, Economy

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• The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.

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  School, Past, Today

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• America is running a fever, but there are no emergency rooms.

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  Running, Nature, Science

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• The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter

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  Data, Analysis, Matter

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• If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.

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  Fighting, Enemy, Trying

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• The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams

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  Dream, Children, Opportunity

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• People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

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  Oil, People, Pockets

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. May 4, 2005.

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• Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

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  New York, Moving, Fire

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• The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.

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  Country, Party, Rights

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• Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.

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  Years, Hydrogen, Detroit

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• We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.

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  Couple, Children, Simple

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• Cigars are no safe alternative act.

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  Smoking, Alternatives, Safe

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• That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers

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  Hands, President, Pockets

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• Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.

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  Important, Four, Letters

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• First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.

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  Jobs, Community, Needs

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• In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

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  Rights, Uzbekistan, President

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• It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

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  Fire, Smoking, Causes

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• Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.

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  Years, Doe, Lasts

  "Hardball" Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. May 5, 2005.

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• Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.

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  School, Technology, Engineering

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• The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.

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  Abuse, Photograph, Treatment

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• Drilling in the Refuge is completely unnecessary when we could improve the average fuel economy of cars, minivans and SUV's by just 3 miles a gallon and save more oil within 10 years than we could ever produce from the Arctic Refuge.

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  Oil, Average, Years

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• The beauty of daylight-saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.

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  Daylight, Saving, Feels

  "Bill Would Extend Daylight-Savings" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. July 29, 2005.

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