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The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
Gaylord Nelson
Environmental
Culture
Important
Our
Rarely
Mentioned
Environmental Issue
Most
Issue
Lack
The Most Important
Ethic
Conservation
Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.
George J. Mitchell
Politics
God
Sides
Take
He
Although
Does
American
Asked
American Politics
Regularly
When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.
George J. Mitchell
Teacher
History
College
Goal
What is good about the United States is the sense that you can disagree with the government and not be seen as unpatriotic, although many in the government will try to make you seem unpatriotic.
George J. Mitchell
Government
Good
You
Disagree
Try
Will
Seen
Sense
States
Unpatriotic
About
Seem
Make
Although
Many
United
United States
It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
George McGovern
War
National
Young
Our
Unless
Security
Clearly
American
National Security
Commit
Young Americans
Patriotic
Requires
I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.
George McGovern
Our
String
Aircraft
Those
Some
Factories
Combat
Prime
Over
Most
Missions
Yards
Tank
Were
His
Targets
Hitting
Oil
Flew
Full
Europe
Railway
Defended
You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
George McGovern
Saying
Time
You
Sometimes
Timing
Sense
Way
Say
Bad
Know
Polite
Real
Just
Your
They Say
I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
George McGovern
Government
Country
Think
Civility
Partly
Because
Getting
Disgusted
Decline
Washington
If I can't affect some change in six years, maybe I'm in the wrong place.
George Nethercutt
Change
Some
Wrong
Wrong Place
Affect
Years
Six
Maybe
Place
Every day, I genuinely count my blessings. One of the greatest things in life is to do a job you really enjoy.
George Osborne
Life
Day
You
Every Day
Job
Enjoy
Every
Count
Blessings
Greatest
Genuinely
Greatest Things
Really
Things
Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.
George Osborne
You
Balance
Rich
Think
Backs
Only
Economic
Never
Delusion
Budget
Just
Poor
Should
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
George Savile
Best
Better
Sight
Drunkard
Subject
Preached
Than
Vice
Against
Sermon
Ever
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
George Savile
Money
Will
Everything
Well
Opinion
Very
Suspected
May
Who
President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.
Geraldine Ferraro
President
One-Liners
Terrific
Reagan
Were
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.
Gerrit Smith
God
Power
Master
Assuming
Relation
Approve
Guilty
System
Absolute
Absolute Power
Towards
His
Cannot
Place
Which
Servitude
Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.
Gerry Adams
War
Peace
Making
Than
Much
Found
Harder
In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.
Gijs de Vries
Work
Intelligence
Share
Limits
Essential
Confidentiality
Information
Amount
The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
Gilbert Parker
Life
Business
Other
Understand
Real
Trying
Each
The difference between a dream and a goal is a deadline.
Gina Raimondo
Dream
Between
Deadline
Goal
Difference
We've just got to keep going. More. More work, more action, more results.
Gina Raimondo
Work
Action
More
Results
Got
Going
Just
Keep
Keep Going
You can raise taxes on the rich in America! We should raise taxes on the rich in America. But we can't do that in Rhode Island.
Gina Raimondo
You
Rich
Island
America
Rhode
Rhode Island
Taxes
Should
Raise
The government's goal is to provide income support for families most affected by socio-economic hardship. The support... will be conditional on vocational training and job reintegration.
Giuseppe Conte
Government
Training
Will
Job
Vocational
Support
Most
Affected
Provide
Conditional
Goal
Families
Income
Hardship
Socio-Economic
Collective European Union action could mean no hiding places for evaders, no safe haven for tax avoiders, and no treasure islands for money launderers.
Gordon Brown
Money
Collective
Action
Hiding
Haven
Could
Safe
Safe Haven
Islands
Tax
Places
Mean
Union
European
European Union
Treasure
You can look at the state of California, which is on a pathway to destruction because they expanded government too much, thinking that there would always be someone to pay for it.
Greg Abbott
Government
You
Destruction
Too Much
Pay
Thinking
Too
State
Would
Someone
Look
California
Because
Always
Pathway
Which
Much
Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.
Grover Norquist
Time
You
Welfare
Gun
Taxpayer
Every
Every Time
Programs
High
High Taxes
Small
Take
Part
Put
Make
Him
Bum
Vested
Vested Interest
Person
Subsidies
Rolls
Tax
Whereas
Interest
Taxes
Cut
Farmer
Who
Businessman
Away
What's hurting the U.S. economy is total government spending. The deficit is an indicator that the government is spending so much money that it can't even get around to stealing all of the money that it wants to spend. But the tip of the iceberg is not what hit the Titanic - it was the 90 percent of the iceberg under water.
Grover Norquist
Government
Money
Water
Deficit
Spend
Spending
Total
Hurting
Indicator
Percent
Stealing
Economy
Around
Government Spending
Hit
Get
Tip
Tip Of The Iceberg
So Much Money
Wants
Titanic
Iceberg
Much
Even
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