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In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq.


Jim McGovern

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JIM HENSON I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.
JIM HENSON But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - to...
JIM HENSON My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
JIM HENSON When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My ho...
JIM HENSON The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.
JIM HENSON Either you run the day or the day runs you.
JIM ROHN The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
JIM ROHN Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.
JIM ROHN There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Supe...
JIM LEE I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a clien...
JIM GARRISON I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I coul...
JIM GARRISON The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employ...
JIM GARRISON This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute s...
JIM GARRISON I'm not in the business of harassing anybody.
JIM GARRISON