Political Quotes

Bill Bennett

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Jul 13, 2008

But the way to deal with false impressions is with the truth, with true impressions.

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Jul 13, 2008

This is a professional magazine. Look, it's often a first-rate magazine. You don't get credit if you're 'The New Yorker' for trying. You get credit for succeeding.

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Jul 8, 2008

The other thing is, why would the Obama campaign again want to highlight friction with the Clintons or the Clintons at all? That moment is gone. It's Obama. He's the nominee.

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Jun 29, 2008

It's always a legitimate question to ask how a candidate feels about his country and given some of his associations, sure, it's absolutely legitimate to ask.

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Jun 29, 2008

A man big enough to be president is big enough to have the truth told about him.

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Jun 18, 2008

Well, I mean, they may not be ready for John McCain. John McCain will not do what Barack Obama and apparently Michelle Obama will do, which is take instruction. He will do whatever he doggone well pleases.

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Jun 18, 2008

He misrepresented his view. He said he wanted to go with campaign finance, the public financing. Then, all this money started to fall like leaves off the trees, so, show me the money. And the money made him change his mind.

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Jun 18, 2008

Let me point out John McCain often takes on interests in his own party. Barack Obama never takes on interests in his own party. Never.

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Jun 5, 2008

My concern is that we may be moving away from an irrational lack of concern about climate change to an equally irrational panic about it. Many of my colleagues ask, ``What's the problem? Hasn't it been a good thing to raise public…

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May 22, 2008

Memorial Day is a day of reflection. It is a day reserved for remembering those who have given their lives in service to our country. While we may choose to remember these individuals in different ways, each American has a responsibility…

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Feb 7, 2008

this afternoon, I and a number of others who have been supporting Gov. Mitt Romney for the Presidency of the United States met with the Governor and his good wife Ann to have a postmortem following his announcement that he was suspending…

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Jan 30, 2008

I thought she won -- I will just be crude and say I thought she won the debate. I thought she was in control.

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