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While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruct and some Democrats will appease.


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BOB BARR The Democrats will take this as a moral victory in a heavily Republican district. In June, the Repub...
JACK PITNEY The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism...
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TIM KAINE A group of us, Republicans and Democrats, decided to see [if] we could put together a core bill that...
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ZOE LOFGREN Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, D...
TED CRUZ It will be one of the major issues in this election.
DAN RICE The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an elec...
WILL ROGERS Everyone wrote us off, ... Everyone said this is not going to happen [and that] the Democrats and th...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER We think that it will be legitimate and it will be a free and democratic election.
FAREED AYAR I think these will be very difficult discussion and I do not think we will see any major decisions m...
VLADIMIR YEVSEYEV They will obey the law. They will not obstruct, they will not interfere with the law under any circu...
KENDALL COFFEY We will continue to work with Republicans and Democrats in Congress to enact a tax cut plan consiste...
CLAIRE BUCHAN Let me say this as your incoming chair of the Democratic national committee: I promise you, my frien...
DONNA BRAZILE I believe that if Democrats - not any one Democrat, and certainly not just me - want to start winnin...
LAURA MOSER I feel very strongly as a partisan Democrat that this will be a major issue in the 2006 election.
JOE SINSHEIMER Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
PAT PAULSEN If the election results permit, then the Social Democrats will definitely give it a try.
JUERGEN FALTER Voters will react the same way in 2006 if Democrats block the reauthorization of the Patriot Act to ...
KEN MEHLMAN The Republicans have shown us that they're corrupt. More importantly, lately, they've shown us how i...
KAREN THURMAN I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will s...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON We do not anticipate that there will be any major shortage, but prices will be high.
MARTHA ROWE MITCHELL I looked at the number of people that went with children and I thought of the kids that were born he...
DAVID HERNANDEZ [Yet both parties' campaign strategists believe Latino party affiliations and voting patterns can be...
MICHAEL ALVAREZ There will be some voter-friendly, or shall we say patronizing, legislation. We'll see some trash, b...
BRIAN BALLARD We have an election cycle coming up ahead, and there are many who fully expect Republicans to captur...
DAVID BOWLES I'll try to carry over some stuff Bob did, but there will be some new things people will see. We gra...
LAURA SELLERS While the government might take measures the public wishes it to take ... there will be some who wil...
LUDEKI CHWEYA We expect it will be part of a process of continuing political reforms and that the flaws that were ...
SCOTT MCCLELLAN We continue to believe that most major acquisitions will fail.
DON LISTWIN I want to make sure we will have decent amount so that we can function as a team. We want big compan...
AGURI SUZUKI We want to make sure that the people of New Orleans have a right to vote and to be active in their c...
DENNIS HAYES Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
EDMUND PHELPS The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human s...
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JOSEPH POLISI I think the opportunity is certainly there for Republicans simply based on the governor's record, .....
ANDREW MCKENNA We have 50 business major students in the class and a number of bilingual students who will be on ha...
LEN SCHOLL I think you will see some matching. But the (major competitor) airlines will dance around to begin w...
BRIAN SIMPSON Voters will decide which is more fair. We have the potential next year for the election to be presid...
KEARY MCCARTHY There will not be consensus and there will not be major progress (in Hong Kong),
CHRISTINE LAGARDE Just because Democrats control committees doesn't mean they have an easy working coalition. There's ...
CHARLES GABRIEL We will start with an excavator to see if we can find the tank and get some samples. Any impacted ma...
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GIORA EILAND Make no mistake: I will work with both Democrats and Republicans to cut wasteful spending and reduce...
ANN MCLANE KUSTER It's no surprise that national Republicans want to see Republicans across the country keep their sea...
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GUENTER HUJARA We will try to see what we can offer the GE people, not all will have a position. Some will take on ...
JACQUES AIGRAIN Most of the music we will be performing is by major black jazz musicians and composers.
GLENN MARTIN The front-loading process will hurt the Democratic nominee, ... We will have a nominee in middle to ...
KATHY SULLIVAN At some point, we'll swing back. We're just not sure when that will be.
DENNIS TODEY have input in the decision, but it's certainly not their decision. I'm sure it will be something tha...
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CRAIG SHIRLEY Right now I see that we need to work on our communication. I see it as a major weakness, and that wi...
ERIKA SMITH If nothing is done to counter present trends, the major fault line in American politics will no long...
ROBERT B. REICH I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will...
OLUSEGUN OBASANJO It will be using both push and pull technology. There are some announcements that we will need to pu...
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HOWARD WOLFSON IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
NOT SURE A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste...
NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE There is a 30 percent chance [that a snap election will be held]. We are preparing ourselves for a d...
YUKIO HATOYAMA The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes t...
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KATHRYN REITH In his farewell address, George Washington warned the people about political parties. Now we see how...
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MANGOSUTHU BUTHELEZI We have told them that postponing the election will lead to a vacuum and to a dark future. Postponin...
ISMAEL HANIYEH This is as good a collection of players as I can remember. Most of these players will have a major i...
DAN OWENS There's a lot of fear and uncertainty around this election. We hope things will be well, and the peo...
MARLEINE BASTIEN Mr. Spitzer has redefined the office of Attorney General. He has consistently supported working fami...
PETER WARD On net, we'll see some damage and a hit to corporate profits and proprietors' income, but that effec...
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CASS SUNSTEIN I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle groun...
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RICHARD V. ALLEN I'm not sure exactly what the problem is. We will wait and see how it progresses.
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NORMAN ORNSTEIN The fact is that whatever fallout there is, good or bad, will be laid at the feet of Republicans.
BILL BLOMQUIST This program will be an albatross around the necks of Republicans in 2006.
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GEORGE ELIOT Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first...
GEORGE ELIOT The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
GEORGE ELIOT A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
GEORGE ELIOT People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
GEORGE ELIOT Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
GEORGE ELIOT No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort t...
GEORGE ELIOT One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
GEORGE ELIOT Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves...
GEORGE ELIOT Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
GEORGE ELIOT Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
GEORGE ELIOT You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffe...
GEORGE ELIOT I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
GEORGE ELIOT Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
GEORGE ELIOT In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
GEORGE ELIOT Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what mus...
GEORGE ELIOT We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
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