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• Our Keystone legislation received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Although it didn't receive the 60 votes necessary for passage, 56 senators - a majority - voted in favor of the bill. Despite President Obama's actively lobbying against the bill, we still won the support of 11 Democrats.

  John Hoeven

  Strong, Support, President

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• I voted against the climate-change legislation. Not that I don't believe we should move to a clean-energy economy, and it can be good for South Dakota's economy to do so, but it was started out as a very partisan bill in the committee.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  Moving, Believe, Bills

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• Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill.

  Keith O'Brien

  Government, Support, Pieces

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• Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Issues, Addresses, Responsible

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• I believe that what is legislated bleeds down into everything. So if the legislation continues to uphold anything that doesn't support equal rights and civil rights, that bleeds down into Matthew Shepard being murdered.

  Pauley Perrette

  Believe, Rights, Support

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• As a former member of President Obama's economic team, I have a soft spot for the fiscal stimulus legislation he signed just a month after his inauguration.

  Christina Romer

  Team, President, Months

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• Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.

  Steven Rattner

  Jobs, Pieces, Acronyms

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• Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican colleagues refused to include it in today's legislation and America's middle class will surely suffer that choice greatly.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Years, Class, America

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• I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.

  Tom Udall

  Mean, Eight, Pieces

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. January 26, 2010.

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• We must consider bringing forward legislation that will facilitate the creation and implementation of businesses in Haiti. Overall, we must better position the country to compete for new market opportunities.

  Laurent Lamothe

  Country, Opportunity, Haiti

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• The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislation sent their way by the Senate, especially legislation passed on a straight party line vote under the spurious policy of reconciliation.

  Neal Boortz

  Party, House, Way

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• It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation

  Allen West

  Rights, Civil Rights, Democrat

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• Politicians responsible for enacting civil same-sex marriage legislation are morally complicit as co-operators in facilitating this grave sin.

  Thomas J. Paprocki

  Sex, Sin, Politician

  "Bishop: Lawmakers 'morally complicit' in sins of same-sex couples" by Ray Long, www.chicagotribune.com. November 21, 2013.

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• Live to fight another day on better legislation.

  Dana Perino

  Fighting, Another Day

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to ?put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honest.

  Terry Pratchett

  Writing, Ankh, Reign

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating body, calmly considering the legislation initiated by the popular branch, and preventing any hasty or ill considered legislation which may come from that body, but it will never set itself in opposition against the deliberate and understood wishes of the people.

  John A. Macdonald

  Independent, People, House

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• This legislation provides Medicaid eligibility to evacuees and residents in (Federal Emergency Management Agency) designated disaster counties, .. It also helps pay private health insurance premiums for those at risk for losing their coverage.

  Thad Cochran

  Agency, Risk, Pay

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• I do not think it would be appropriate to use official party resources such as the DNC website on behalf of organizations whose purpose is to reverse the current platform and/or to enact legislation that contradicts that platform.

  Terry McAuliffe

  Party, Thinking, Organization

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• As one of the nation's top agricultural states, Nebraska has a great opportunity to provide input that will help shape the 2007 Farm Bill, .. This legislation will help determine commodity price supports, priorities with regard to conservation programs, as well as rural development, renewable energy and beginning farmer initiatives for several years to come.

  Dave Heineman

  Opportunity, Years, Agriculture

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• It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way. Legislation has been proposed to create a US Department of Peace. In the propsed Department of Peace it would organize our present system into one conscious effort to improve humanity in achieving peace, where true safety lies.

  Walter Cronkite

  Military, Lying, Safety

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• The bulk of government is not legislation but administration.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Government, Administration

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.90, Cornell University Press

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• I don't think that I need to tell you how important to the outcome of that race is the education legislation that is now before the Congress. I hope that it is important enough that most of you have studied it in detail. I hope that you understand that it represents the very best thinking that the leading educators of this country can produce.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Country, Thinking

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.226, Best Books on

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• Borrowing money on what's called 'easy terms,' is a one-way ticket to the Poor House. If you think it ain't a Sucker Game, why is your Banker the richest man in your Town? Why is your Bank the biggest and finest building in your Town? Instead of passing Bills to make borrowing easy, if Congress had passed a Bill that no Person could borrow a cent of Money from any other person, they would have gone down in History as committing the greatest bit of Legislation in the World.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Men, Thinking

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• There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation.

  Ellen MacArthur

  Taken, Opportunity, Government

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• Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time in the form of legislation and customs.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Men, Long

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.151, Vintage

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