Political Quotes

John Ensign

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Quotes by year · 19952011602 total · peak 2010 (139)
1995: 6 quotes1996: 14 quotes1997: 19 quotes1998: 3 quotes2001: 12 quotes2002: 41 quotes2003: 58 quotes2004: 41 quotes2005: 38 quotes2006: 64 quotes2007: 38 quotes2008: 19 quotes2009: 79 quotes2010: 139 quotes2011: 31 quotes
Jan 6, 2011

We have to have the kind of tax policy because you cannot just cut your way out of this.

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Jan 6, 2011

It is much easier to get re-elected when you are giving money away, basically.

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Jan 6, 2011

This country is literally headed for a financial crisis that we maybe have never seen.

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Jan 6, 2011

The debt that you are talking about, the interest on the debt, you have said that is unsustainable.

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Jan 6, 2011

We need to get control of these entitlements for today.

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Jan 6, 2011

You need to get out there in the real world and talk to folks.

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Jan 6, 2011

We have to understand that small businesses do create jobs, and we are going to hurt job creation.

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Dec 21, 2010

Just to address the one point on the clarification in the resolution of ratification, it has been said that our resolution of ratification clarifies and we should not need this language in the definition. Here is the problem I have…

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Dec 21, 2010

I rise today to speak on behalf of this amendment, which would clear up any ambiguity by adding the rail mobile definition of START I to the New START treaty. Specifically, my amendment would amend the protocol annex, part one, in terms…

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Dec 21, 2010

to wrap up this debate, let me address, first of all, the whole idea that changing this treaty in any way kills the treaty. Under the Constitution, certainly it is the President's role, the administration's role, to negotiate the treaties…

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Dec 21, 2010

let me just read one paragraph from this: If Russia chose to develop and deploy rail-mobile ICBMs, such missiles and their launchers would be subject to the Treaty and its limitations. That is according to our State Department. Specific…

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Dec 16, 2010

I rise today to talk about this New START treaty. I have some very serious concerns about it. I appreciate the work that has been done by my colleagues. This is an incredibly serious issue. I do not question anybody's motives, but I do…

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