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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• 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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• 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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• The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel

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  Christian, Lions, Chance

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

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  Data, Analysis, Matter

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• However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.

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  Commitment, Reality, Racism

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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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• The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change.

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  Years, Politics, Constitution

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• I have no confidence whatsoever in BP. I think that they do not know what they are doing.

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  Thinking, Oil Spill, No Confidence

  "Government Scientists Are Consulting But Unable to Stop BP Oil Spill". www.foxnews.com. May 30, 2010.

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• The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

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  Leadership, Years, President

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

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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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• The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

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  War, Engagement, Terrorism

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• My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of marathon runners, onlookers, city officials and others affected by this senseless tragedy.

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  Prayer, Cities, Tragedy

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• You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

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  Car, Waiting, Six Months

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, May 5, 2005.

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