"And this - this board was - was impanelled in 1951. And it's gone through ups and downs in how the secretaries have used it. But I have put a premium on that advisory board."

-- Chuck Hagel

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“He doesnâ€™t just look upsetâ€”he looks newly blind. There is such loss in his eyes, and it permeates every other part of his body.”
“Leadership must first and foremost meet the needs of others.”
“Music came as the best thing for me at home, where no one can tell you anything. For years I was so closed, wanting to do it exactly like I had it in my head, because this would be the only place that was superpersonal.”
“It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French.”
“You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.”
“[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display the least interest in libertarianism. Those on the receiving end of coercion don't quibble over their coercers' credentials. If you can't pay or don't want to, you don't much care if your deprivation is called larceny or taxation or restitution or rent. If you like to control your own time, you distinguish employment from enslavement only in degree and duration.”
“Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.”

Source : "A Dangerous Proposal" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2010.
“As a lobbyist, I was completely against term limits, and I know a lot of people are against term limits, and I was one of the leaders, because why? As a lobbyist, once you buy a congressional office, you don't have to re-buy that office in six years, right?”

Source : "Former lobbyist Jack Abramoff". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. April 4, 2012.

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