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'Our federal caucus is in a precarious position,


Gough Whitlam

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DAVID WENHAM Notoriously, in 1975, Murdoch abused his position as a newspaper owner to support a plot that ousted...
NICK DAVIES It is certainly a precarious position for the program.
RICK SANFORD The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self...
GOUGH WHITLAM An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and w...
GOUGH WHITLAM I'm the only P.M. of which that can be said - 'His legislation was never declared invalid in...
GOUGH WHITLAM Ladies and gentlemen, well may we say "God Save the Queen", because nothing will save the Governor-G...
GOUGH WHITLAM The fun is where I am!'
GOUGH WHITLAM Maintain your rage and enthusiasm
GOUGH WHITLAM No parliamentarian could tell his electors that he was too ill to be the leader of the party but was...
GOUGH WHITLAM The Caucus I joined in 1953 had as many Boer War veterans as men who had seen active service in Worl...
GOUGH WHITLAM I have more influence now than when I had the power.
GOUGH WHITLAM The temperatures will affect how quickly our linemen are able to work. The wind itself is going to b...
DAVID LEWIS You can get fixed ideas, and it can get restrictive. So, I try to put myself in a precarious positio...
MERCE CUNNINGHAM It puts them in a very precarious position. They know when they take the pledge that it's not in the...
TED ARRINGTON Our position has been that employment of immigrants is a federal issue, and it deserves a federal re...
FARRELL QUINLAN He owes his election and political soul to Fabian Nuñez. It's going to be very hard for him to vote...
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DICK SNELL We're very happy with the decision. It reinforces our position all along ? that the federal law supe...
ALLISON HRESTAK Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is...
JUDITH BUTLER At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.
ESTELLE PARSONS This is a historical year for the Black Caucus, and we are reaching out to bring our community toget...
SHEILA JACKSON LEE I find that if I'm watching somebody upon television or in a movie that is on a window ledge or ...
ALAN MOORE He owes his election and political soul to Fabian Nuñez. It's goi...
BOB HOLMES Our only aim is to see the state out of the current painful and precarious situation.
OMAR ABDULLAH Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily col...
DORIS LESSING The state has put us in a precarious place.
EMILY HAMILTON Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help...
RIC KELLER Our recommendation is to just say no to medical marijuana dispensaries. The position we believe is m...
HELEN HOLMES PEAK Opposition is growing. The situation is precarious.
HIROYUKI HOSODA For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.
TERRY EAGLETON The Houston GLBT Political Caucus will offer all of our resources to support these candidates in the...
MARIA GONZALES There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier....
JOHN NEGROPONTE For the past several years, the Meth Caucus has worked to engage the Office of National Drug Control...
RICK LARSEN The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold...
DAVID LEVITHAN This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid in full.
CLARENCE DAY The Populist Caucus is the only caucus in Congress devoted solely to addressing middle class economi...
BRUCE BRALEY Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
LARRY DAVID With police wielding unprecedented powers to invade privacy, tap phones and conduct searches seeming...
WALTER CRONKITE We have repeated our position on relations with the Vatican many times. There is no change in our po...
LIU JIANCHAO For this caucus to allow a rural infrastructure program to be announced in St. John's is, quite fran...
GERRY BYRNE The federal government is in great fiscal position and doesn't need to issue as much debt. In terms ...
WARREN LOVELY It is a bipartisan gathering to be able to pray for the needs back in our districts, for our familie...
JAMES LANKFORD The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and i...
JANE ADDAMS The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain - until it is secured for all of us and...
JANE ADDAMS My whole deal is I want to have a principle-based, member-driven caucus.
DAN WEBSTER This Union Federal sale is a big deal because it will bring an invigorated competitor into the marke...
BOB WARRINGTON But we're not a federal lobbying group. Our work is electoral.
ERIC STERN The situation in the occupied territories continues to be precarious,
AMR MOUSSA My position is that North Dakota law already prohibits an off-reservation casino anywhere in the sta...
WAYNE STENEHJEM I think you cannot run a modern campaign in a post-9/11 era and deliberately not take a position on ...
DAVID SIROTA Every generation has an obligation to leave its children in a better position than it inherited. Our...
DAVID MALPASS All these [results] suggest unstable days ahead in the Republican caucus.
BILL MCINTURFF [Rep. Rob Simmons, R-Conn., said the White House responded to the caucus] in part as a function of o...
STEVEN LATOURETTE Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Unless you have completely destroyed your enemy, your survival is precarious
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The Lake Forest Caucus system has a thorough application process,
DAVID MOORE Our position is that a 19-year-old shouldn't be put in a position to have to pitch. We feel we've go...
LEE PELEKOUDAS Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and wa...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON I believe that all the stakeholders have to pull their resources together to get the team out of its...
SHUFFLE KGOROBA It is a massive game for both clubs in terms of our league position.
ALAN PARDEW I am pleased with the reforms implemented throughout the course of the deferred prosecution agreemen...
CHARLES HAYWARD can best be characterized as precarious.
GEORGE W. BUSH While we are disappointed with the Federal District court's decision, we remain confident that the c...
DICK COLLIVER I'm encouraged by the federal government's efforts to pre-position resources to prepare for Rita's l...
JOHN CORNYN The Democratic caucus is rich in diversity. Democratic women have excelled in Congress — leading ou...
JENNIFER CRIDER You can peg a lot of the decisions on that caucus.
STEVEN MACKINNON I joined the Safe Climate Caucus because I believe in leaving a safer planet for future generations.
MARK POCAN We all known that [the Arkansas delegation ] does a great job for the Delta region, but we don't hav...
LEE POWELL I have never understood the Iowa caucus.
LARRY KING Our defense is better than it's been in a while. We're solid at every position.
JOANNE GRAF They should be very proud for the efforts they made in supporting the premier and his caucus of maki...
SHIRLEY MCCLELLAN There's blame to go around but in the end, the federal government is our last defense and it's the f...
ELEANOR CLIFT That is our nonnegotiable position.
GUILLERMO MUNOZ The mutiny is [probably] seen as evidence of the fact that it's a very precarious situation still.
MIKE MCGOVERN The balance of civil liberties and national security has always been a precarious one. A balance tha...
DAVID CRANE There are some real needs of our citizens and it's not always alcohol and drugs, it's basic necessit...
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL PAGE This transaction is a very significant step in our strategy and strongly reinforces both our leaders...
CARLOS BRITO There is no change in our position. The main difference is that they in principle don't agree to lin...
MAHMUDUR RAHMAN My wife organized the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses.. wait.. ! I am receiving a correction ...
JOHN C LEHMAN Our hands are tied from a federal perspective and will continue to be tied until the federal governm...
DAVID PALSROK For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past...
SUSAN SONTAG Faced with this situation, we must act, ... What's urgent is to ensure the safety of people living i...
JACQUES CHIRAC [The design process is in limbo.] We have not had any contact at all, ... I can see that it's precar...
FRANK GEHRY Our position is that they can't.
BRUCE PETERSON This is our team. Our team is in place, I feel great about these two guys without having a president...
DAN GILBERT Mr. Martin ... is entitled, like other ministers in the Quebec caucus, to be exonerated from any bla...
JOHN GOMERY Mr. Martin...is entitled, like other ministers in the Quebec caucus, to be exonerated from any blame...
JOHN GOMERY There's no agreement to pay for this at all. Those of us who would like to pay for it are very much ...
JUDD GREGG Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
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