Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything. "

Related Quotes:

" Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens. "

Tom Allen

Serious

Past

World

" Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases. "

" To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it. "

" The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources. "

" I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism. "

" Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people. "

" I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm. "

" The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities. "

" Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become any type of human cell and could provide new treatments for many illnesses. "

" In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden. "

" The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities. "

" Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence. "

" What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt. "

" President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office. "

" Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response. "

" In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have. "

" I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans. "

" Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities. "

" We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq. "

" They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways. "

" I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations. "

" While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best. "

" These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things. "

" Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups. "

" By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America! "

" Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research. "

" Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity. "

" The Republicans in the House and the Bush administration are bankrupting this country. "

" Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance. "