The War Powers Act requires presidents to seek the consent of the American people, through their representatives, before sending our troops into war. It is the responsibility of Congress to deliberate and consult with the executive branch before involving ourselves in a military conflict.


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I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
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I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
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I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
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I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
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I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
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If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
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When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
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I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
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My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
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I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
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The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
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I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
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My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
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Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
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Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
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I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
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As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
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I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ...
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
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Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So ...
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caug...
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It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asl...
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two...
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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her t...
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then...
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I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that ...
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I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking ...
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You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you...
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I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many ...
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Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but ...
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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unle...
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