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"I was raised in the west. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California." In Los Angeles as quoted by the Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2000 "I think we agree, the past is over." On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000 "More and more of our imports come from overseas." "It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."--Rueters, May 5, 2000 "When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us vs. them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there." Iowa Western Community College, Jan 21, 2000 "How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?" Explaining the need for educational accountability in Beaufort, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000 "The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants." "And so, in my State of the - my State of the Union - or state - my speech to the nation, whatever you want to call it, speech to the nation - I asked Americans to give 4,000 years - 4,000 hours over the next - the rest of your life - of service to America. That's what I asked - 4,000 hours." "It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber." "What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position." "The senator has got to understand if he's going to have, he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road." "That's a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century. " I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well. "Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods." "The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself." "I know the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully." "If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all." "They misunderestimated me." "I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college students to accept my tenants. And I reject any labeling me because I happened to go to the university." "You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test." "I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure." "We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor like you like to be liked yourself." "Unfairly, but truthfully, our party has been tagged as being against things. Anti-immigrant, for example." "There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again." "I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe -I believe what I believe is right." "This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve." Speaking during Perseverance Month at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000 "I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember." On his discussions of the Vietnam War while a student at Yale University Marijuana? Cocaine? I'm not going to talk about what I did as a child." "I read the newspaper." Answering a question about his reading habits, New Hampshire Republican Debate, Dec. 2, 1999 "States should have the right to enact reasonable laws and restrictions particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live." "It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then." "Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis." "Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment." " "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000 "The press often ask me, well, is this the-is the evil one hiding from us in Afghanistan, the ones who have done this to America? I said, I don't know." |
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