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All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
Iain Duncan Smith
Government
Money
Problems
Too
Out
Response
Has-Been
Classic
Case
Containing
Supporting
Limiting
Doing
Been
Handing
Behaviour
Often
Breakdown
Dysfunctional
Social
Even
Damage
Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
Ian Smith
World
Thirty
Everything
Criticized
About
Years
Did
Accusing
Against
Us
Lived
Things
This country gave us hope. This country allowed for us to develop our own identity and to create our own home. And we should not look down on the next person that is trying to do that.
Ilhan Omar
Hope
Home
Country
Own
Down
Gave
Our
Develop
Allowed
Look
Identity
Person
Trying
Us
Create
Next
Should
I think we forget that, for a really long time, this country has been a place that has welcomed many refugees who have made it home and have tremendously contributed to this country.
Ilhan Omar
Time
Home
Made
Long
Long Time
Country
Think
Tremendously
Has-Been
Welcomed
Been
Forget
Refugees
Place
Really
Really Long Time
Who
Many
I'm not easily scared; from the age of 8, I learned what it means to have everything you know taken away and what it means to persevere. I approach politics the same way.
Ilhan Omar
Politics
You
Age
Approach
Everything
Way
Easily
Scared
Taken
Know
Learned
Persevere
Same
Means
Away
ICE has only become increasingly militarized, brutal, and unaccountable.
Ilhan Omar
Become
Increasingly
Unaccountable
Only
Brutal
Ice
The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
Ingrid Betancourt
Time
Relationship
You
Changes
Time Changes
Captive
The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.
Ingrid Betancourt
Forgiveness
Mind
Settled
Only
Forgetting
Forgive
Want
The Only Thing
Thing
More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.
Ingrid Betancourt
Victim
More
Am
Than
Survivor
Process
Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
Ingrid Betancourt
You
Heart
Decision
Reconciliation
Take
Your
I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.
Ismail Haniyeh
Freedom
Democracy
People
Spring
Heroic
Syria
Arab
Striving
Arab Spring
Reform
Salute
Nations
Who
We promise you that we will not cede a single part of Palestine, we will not cede Jerusalem, we will continue to fight and we will not lay down our arms.
Ismail Haniyeh
You
Fight
Will
Single
Down
Our
Promise
Lay
Part
Arms
Continue
Jerusalem
Palestine
Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?
J. C. Watts
Government
Debate
Our
Possibly
Solutions
Facts
Leaders
Democrats
How
Accounting
Deceive
Substantive
Fictional
Cannot
Public
Republicans
Republicans And Democrats
Used
Agree
Believing
Competing
Numbers
When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.
J. C. Watts
Corner
Market
Dream
No-One
Share
Equal
American
American Dream
Us
Chance
I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed.
J. C. Watts
Would
Remind
Support
Caution
Any
Going
Candidate
Flawed
Us
I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.
J. C. Watts
Thoughts
Community
Think
Claim
Pretend
Diverse
Point
Voices
Point Of View
Ideas
Know
Opinions
However
Heard
Lot
Very
Different
African-American
African-American Community
View
Need
There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
J. William Fulbright
World
Example
Power
Appropriate
Respects
Magnanimity
Empathy
Itself
Intelligent
America
Size
Which
Act
Many
Many Respects
Bring
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
J. William Fulbright
Citizen
Country
Tribute
Criticizes
Implied
His
Paying
Who
I do find it slightly offensive that everyone thinks that every New Zealander starred in either 'Lord of the Rings' or 'The Hobbit.'
Jacinda Ardern
Every
Everyone
Slightly
Find
Rings
New
Lord
Lord Of The Rings
Offensive
Hobbit
Either
Starred
Thinks
Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
Jack Kemp
Day
You
Every Day
Wind
Looking
Every
Winning
Like
Shaving
Bum
Up
There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
Jack Kemp
Future
People
Our
Our People
Put
Limits
The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.
Jack Kemp
World
Joke
Looking
Threat
Countries
Economy
Terms
Offer
Model
Soviet
Soviet Union
Represents
Might
Union
Third
Third World
When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
Jack Miller
Life
Education
Quality
School
Our
Ability
Someone
Drives
Wrong
Economy
Schools
Quality Of Life
Go
Get
Desire
It is hard to see taxing plastic bags as one of the great issues of our time that merits the foremost place in our finest statesmen's minds. It is an absurd little issue, a picayune proportion of household waste, and a pointless inconvenience in people's lives.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Time
Great
People
Our
Minds
Statesmen
Our Time
See
Finest
Proportion
Pointless
Absurd
Bags
Merits
Household
Issue
Issues
Foremost
Place
Little
Taxing
Hard
Plastic
Waste
Lives
Inconvenience
Unsalted butter is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Ghost
Sin
Against
Holy
Holy Ghost
Butter
Political correctness is a thing of leftist radicals.
Jair Bolsonaro
Political
Correctness
Political Correctness
Leftist
Radicals
Thing
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