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I Remember George Mitchell - I Was Doing The Clarence Thomas Hearing, And There Were 48 Senators Declared They Were Not Prepared To Vote For Him At The Front End. We Could Have Filibustered That And Stopped It. George And I - George Was The Leader At The Time - Took The Heat From Every Liberal Group Saying, "no, No, That's Not The Way The System Is Supposed To Work, Since The Constitution - The President Shall Propose And The Constitution Shall Dispose, We're Going To Let Them Hear This."

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I Remember George Mitchell

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I Remember George Mitchell - I Was Doing The Clarence Thomas Hearing, And There Were 48 Senators Declared They Were Not Prepared To Vote For Him At The Front End. We Could Have Filibustered That And Stopped It. George And I - George Was The Leader At The Time - Took The Heat From Every Liberal Group Saying, "no, No, That's Not The Way The System Is Supposed To Work, Since The Constitution - The President Shall Propose And The Constitution Shall Dispose, We're Going To Let Them Hear This."

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Foreign Policy Is Like Human Relations, Only People Know Less About Each Other.

Here At Home, When Americans Were Standing In Long Lines To Give Blood After The Attack On The World Trade Center And The Pentagon, We Squandered An Obvious Opportunity To Make Service A Noble Cause Again, And Rekindle An American Spirit Of Community.

Well, We're [usa] Not Looking For An Ally; What We're Looking For Is A Stable, Democratic Government That Is Not Beholden To Anyone In The Region And Is Able To Be Secure Within Its Own Borders And Have Its Own Policy.

Donald Trump Is Appealing To, That Whole Expression, Everybody Who Asked Me, Why Is Trump Able To Win In Those 16 People? There's A Whole Expression. In The Land Of The Blind, The One-eyed Man Is King. I'm Not Very Good At Prognosticating But I Would Not Be Surprised If He's The Nominee.

Mark My Words. It Will Not Be Six Months Before The World Tests Barack Obama Like They Did John Kennedy.

I Was In Sit-ins To Desegregate Restaurants And Movie Houses In The '60s.

America Is The Promised Land, Because Each Generation Bequeathed To Its Children A Promise, A Promise That They Might Not Come To Enjoy But Which They Fully Expected Their Offspring To Fulfill. So The Words 'all Men Are Created Equal' Took A Life Of Its Own, Ultimately Destined To End Slavery And Enfranchise Women. And The Words 'equal Protection' And 'due Process' Inevitably Led To The End Of The Words 'separate But Equal,' Ensuring That The Walls Of Segregation Would Crumble, Whether At The Lunch Counter Or At The Voting Booth.

You Guys At Fox Can't Seem To Get Your Facts Straight.

We Need To Aggressively Take On Radical Islamic Terrorism But Not At The Expense Of Our American Values.

I Have Never Left Another Senator Out To Dry. Never.

Senator John Stennis: The Civil Rights Movement Did More To Free The White Man That The Black Man. ... It Freed My Soul.

This Republican Kevin Mccarthy Makes Hillary [clinton] The Victim.

I Did Not Know At The Time, But What I Did At That Swimming Pool [on The East Side Of Wilmington] Paved The Way For Barack Obama.

I Believe At Its Core We Have A Constitution, As Our Supreme Court's First Great Justice, Marshall, Said In 1819, And I Quote, "intended To Endure For The Ages To Come And Consequently To Be Adapted To The Various Crises Of Human Affairs."

We Must Rekindle The Fire Of Idealism In Our Society.

Idealism And Realism

A Lucky Person Gets Up In The Morning, Puts Both Feet On The Floor, Knows What They're About To Do And Thinks It Still Matters.

During The 60's, I Was, In Fact, Very Concerned About The Civil Rights Movement.

Justice Sandra Day O'connor Decisions Reflect, In My View, That Our Society Has Worked Very Hard To Improve The Workaday World, To Open Doors To Workers Confronted By Powerful Employers And For Women Facing Harassment And Stereotypes.

You Know You're A Success When You Look At Your Kids And Realize They Turned Out Better Than You.

There's About 100 Different Cancers In A Cancer Cell. And So What We're Finding Out Is, They're Finding Out Ways To Deal With One Or Two Of The Cancers There, With Certain Medicines. But They Don't Know Why, If You Have That Cancer And I Have That Cancer, And I Get The Therapy And You Get It, I Don't Live And You Live. That - They Don't Know Why.

I Do Not Believe That We Have A Right To Tell Other People, Women, That They Can't Control Their Bodies.

As You Probably Know, Some American Politicians And American Journalists Refer To Washington, Dc As The "capital Of The Free World." But It Seems To Me That Brussels, Which Boasts 1,000 Years Of History And Which Serves As The Capital Of Belgium, The Home Of The European Union, And The Headquarters For Nato, This City Has Its Own Legitimate Claim To That Title.

The Worst Thing We Can Do As A Nation Is Taking The Easy Way Out. If You Start Opening Up Offshore Drilling, Then You Are Buying Time And You Are Not Addressing The Fundamental Problem With Fossil Fuels.

The Next Person That Tells Me I'm Not Religious, I'm Going To Shove My Rosary Beads Up Their Ass.

My Dad Always Said, 'champ, The Measure Of A Man Is Not How Often He Is Knocked Down, But How Quickly He Gets Up.'

Us Worse Off Than Before Saddam Because Us Lost Credibility.

We Must Rekindle The Fire Of Idealism In Our Society, For Nothing Suffocates The Promise Of America More Than Unbounded Cynicism And Indifference.

Folks, You're The Reason That The Automobile Industry Is Back. Whether It Was The Wage Freezes, The Plant Closures, Folks, You Sacrificed To Keep Your Companies Open. Because Of Your Productivity, The Combined Auto Companies Have Committed To Invest Another $23 Billion In Expansion In America.

The Average Voter Out There Understands That The Next President Is Going To Have To Be Prepared To Immediately Step In Without Hesitation And End Our Involvement In Iraq. It's Very Difficult To Figure Out How To Move On To Broader Foreign Policy Concerns Without Fixing Iraq First.

One Of The Reasons To Pick The Cancer Effort Is To Demonstrate To People That There's Not Much Beyond Our Capacity. It Will Take Time, But If We Focus, If We Narrow Down Where The Bottle Necks Are And We Move, There's Never Been A Problem We Can't Solve.

The Recovery Act Is Working, But It's Going To Continue To Work. It's Not Over. A Lot's Going To Happen This Summer. And Even After The Summer, There's More To Come With The Act.

I'm Not Running Like Colonel [bernie] Sanders. All Reputations Matter.

And Since Our Country's Founding, We've Tried To Keep Government's Heavy Hand Out Of Our Personal Lives, While Ensuring That We Do The Most Important Thing, Which Is To Protect Those Who Cannot Protect Themselves.

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