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This legislation is so weak it's embarrassing.


Chellie Pingree

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HERMAN MELVILLE Ignorance is not bliss its painful and embarrassing
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GAIL HILLEBRAND They're really into it, laughing and teasing each other, and I am looking at Pam and thinking once a...
JAMES HOWE This is getting embarrassing.
BHAWOH JUE I can't even
SARAH VAN WATERSCHOOT My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Wo...
JOHN HUGHES It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoo...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Clearly, this is very embarrassing, and very serious,
ELAINE SHANNON The legislation is so draconian it even surpasses Ian Smith's own legislation during the liberation ...
IAN SMITH Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.
SAMUEL ROGERS If this is a cohesive national policy, it is embarrassing,
MARK SOUDER We are breaking a promise, and that is unfair to the people who fought so long and so hard for this ...
STENY HOYER This took so much time and effort on everybody's part, ... get legislation changed.
BILL MUELLER Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky ...
AUDREY HEPBURN Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, li...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE This long overdue legislation is strong and comprehensive.
JACK SHANER Now is the appropriate time for this legislation.
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TOM DELAY I think its really disappointing. Jim Thome did a lot of good things for this town. It was kind of e...
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CHARLES ROBERT SIMMONS II Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects...
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JOSEPH WONG This is legislation we've been working on for years.
LARRY WEBER This evidence is so weak and so fraught with danger to not only confuse the jury but also prejudice ...
JOEL HIRSCHHORN Clearly, this is very embarrassing, and very serious. The system is only as strong as its weakest li...
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MITCH ALBOM It was embarrassing. This was real Bears basketball.
DEKE THOMPSON To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying h...
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WILLIAM DONALDSON That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON Part of it is that this legislation is
very, very new,
LINDA HUNTER Acting is embarrassing.
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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If the...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL I blush so easily. Even when I'm not embarrassed, I blush. It's so embarrassing.
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DEYTH BANGER It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
ERIC HOFFER This legislation is supported ... across the spectrum, from Ralph Reed to Ralph Nader.
BOB GOODLATTE The good news is, this is a weak one.
KLAUS WOLTER There aren't any embarrassing questions -- only embarrassing answers.
CARL ROWAN There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.
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