Michael Dukakis famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state.
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Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasnt with me as against me.
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What do you do if youre in a room with Muammar Qaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and John Sununu, and you have a gun with only two bullets? Shoot Sununu twice.
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The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.
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Our greatest strength comes not from what we possess, but from what we believe; not from what we have, but from who we are.
-- Michael Dukakis
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The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
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Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung
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There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
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When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was interested in learning more about the complicated conflict and decided I would lend some of my time and energy to do so.
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.
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I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
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Be glad I don't have my gun because right now I'm considering the different ways I can get you to shut up. Let me scream and back off.
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A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.
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