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When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.
Billy Hughes
Justice
Mercy
Having
Want
Painted
Portrait
The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that's a huge, huge win.
Blake Farenthold
Justice
Win
Somebody
Criminal
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice System
Punish
System
Both
Purpose
Huge
I took an oath to protect the Constitution, and protecting the Constitution means not letting the president bypass the separation of powers.
Blake Farenthold
Constitution
Separation
Bypass
President
Took
Oath
Protect
Powers
Protecting
Means
Letting
The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.
Blake Farenthold
Government
People
Behavior
Employees
Congress
Bad
Bad Behavior
Federal
Footing
Government Officials
American
Officials
Rewarding
American People
Should
Bill
Who
Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.
Blanche Lincoln
Prosperity
Responsibility
Seniors
Believe
Our
Spending
Way
Secure
Responsible
Must
Both
Retirement
Fair
Fiscal
Fiscal Responsibility
Fiscally
Families
America
Tax
Tax Cut
Decisions
Cut
Create
Working
Working Families
Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders.
Bob Barr
Government
People
Long
Power
Country
Nation
National
Entering
Recognized
Borders
Ability
Federal
Goods
Protect
Robust
Courts
Very
National Sovereignty
Sovereignty
After
Foundation
President Reagan, Jack Kemp and other advocates of supply-side economics understood that pro-growth tax, spending and economic policies were essential to America's long-term economic and fiscal health.
Bob Beauprez
Health
Economics
Other
President
President Reagan
Spending
Economic
Economic Policies
Long-Term
Policies
Advocate
Reagan
Fiscal
Understood
Were
Jack
America
Pro-Growth
Essential
Tax
There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.
Bob Brown
Technology
Better
Solar
Alternatives
Australia
Uranium
Should
Exporting
The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.
Bob Brown
Business
Pursuit
Longer
Gods
Eternity
Us
Now
Prerogative
Here
I don't support gay marriage, but I also don't support a constitutional amendment banning it. However, I do support same sex unions that would give gay couples all the rights, privileges and protections of marriage.
Bob Casey, Jr.
Gay
Rights
Marriage
Sex
Unions
Gay Marriage
Would
Constitutional
Constitutional Amendment
Give
Support
Also
Couples
However
Privileges
Amendment
Same
Same-Sex
Banning
The attorney general should be a watchdog for the rule of law, not a lapdog for the president - simple as that.
Bob Casey, Jr.
Law
Simple
President
Rule
Rule Of Law
General
Attorney
Attorney General
Should
Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America.
Bob Casey, Jr.
Home
People
Pennsylvania
Some
Toughest
Most
America
Decent
Decent People
I do think there's a difference between what a religious leader says and does and what a public official or legislator does. But there's no question that a lot of our legal underpinnings find a good bit of their foundations in the Scriptures.
Bob Casey, Jr.
Good
Legal
Leader
Think
Our
Bit
Says
Find
Religious
No Question
Between
Does
Question
Lot
Official
Legislator
Difference
Public
Scriptures
Foundations
Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.
Bob Ehrlich
Politics
People
Problems
Philosophies
Backgrounds
System
Solutions
Diverse
Only
Participate
Principled
Contest
Advocating
Common
Different
Energetic
Works
Among
Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.
Bob Etheridge
Leadership
Trust
Corruption
Rampant
Sign
Highest
Clear
Highest Levels
Supposed
Office
Republican
Public
Public Office
Public Trust
Levels
We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.
Bob Taft
Education
Quality
Higher Education
World-Class
Our
Ensure
System
Must
Higher
Economy
Offers
In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders.
Bobby Jindal
September
Our
Secure
Critical
Borders
Aftermath
September 11th
If we get outside the EU, if we leave the EU system, we will be relieved of a huge amount of unnecessary regulation that is holding this country back. We will be able to set our own priorities, make our own laws and set our own tax policies to suit the needs of this country. We have a huge opportunity also to make people's votes count for more.
Boris Johnson
Needs
People
Opportunity
Will
Country
Own
Holding
Back
Our
System
Unnecessary
Relieved
Able
Laws
More
Count
Outside
Votes
Also
Make
Policies
Priorities
Leave
Huge
Huge Amount
Huge Opportunity
Get
Tax
EU
Regulation
Amount
Set
Suit
The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
Boris Johnson
Lib
Vast
Void
Empty
Within
Surrounded
Just
Vacuum
I've always sort of thought that politics was a high and noble calling and a good thing to do.
Boris Johnson
Politics
Good
Thought
High
Good Thing
Noble
Calling
Sort
Always
Thing
I used to get very, very frustrated by people being told what to do by nanny in Brussels. And I remember once I rang the official who was actually responsible for banning the prawn-cocktail-flavoured crisp, which I think contained a dye called Arithrazine or something like that.
Boris Johnson
People
Remember
Think
Once
Rang
Crisp
Responsible
Something
Brussels
Contained
Like
Nanny
Very
Get
Official
Being
Dye
Banning
Which
Frustrated
Used
Who
Actually
I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.
Boss Tweed
Care
Constituents
Seeing
Pictures
Know
Read
How
Articles
dont Care
Them
Newspaper
Your
Help
Straw
The way to have power is to take it.
Boss Tweed
Power
Way
Take
What we shouldn't be doing is borrowing money to give benefits to the most fortunate, to put the burden and pull the rug out of those who struggle the most.
Brad Schneider
Struggle
Money
Benefits
Burden
Rug
Those
Out
Borrowing
Give
Put
Most
Doing
Fortunate
Who
Pull
Good ideas are the backbone of good government.
Brian Schweitzer
Government
Good
Good Ideas
Backbone
Ideas
Good Government
We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.
Bruce Babbitt
Work
God
Obligation
Creation
Live
Carefully
Harmony
Our
Administer
Very
Capital
Need
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