Political Quotes

Mark Dayton

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Quotes by year · 20012020295 total · peak 2003 (65)
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Feb 11, 2004

I thank the bill's managers, Senator Inhofe and the ranking member, Senator Jeffords, for standing up against what I believe are very misguided attempts to take a meat cleaver to this very important bill. It is terribly unfortunate that…

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Feb 4, 2004

I think we have succeeded in very important respects.

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Feb 4, 2004

But 'Congress' covers a multitude of sins. I am only one.

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Feb 4, 2004

What you are getting today are questions, and I have these questions as well, about whether the deployment timetable is being dictated by professional judgments or political pronouncements.

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Feb 4, 2004

We determined that there are no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) there that threatened our national security.

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Feb 4, 2004

I'd like to know to what extent financial aid to Iraqis not currently employed is still being expended.

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Feb 4, 2004

It is very important to me that the military continue to pay travel expenses in relation to the Rest and Recuperation (R&R) Leave Program.

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Feb 4, 2004

I'm going to support it, but I'm very concerned about doing so before receiving any accounting as to how the $163 billion that has been appropriated in the previous two supplementals has been spent or is being spent now.

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Feb 4, 2004

Our military won a tremendous victory in 3 weeks last year from the border to taking over Baghdad.

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Nov 18, 2003

I will focus my remarks on this matter because it is one that is deserving of all the attention and concern of the Members of this body, and it is a very difficult matter, one that I wish we didn't have to confront in this Chamber and one…

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Nov 17, 2003

this amendment will provide $1.1 million in funding for the Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building at the Neighborhood House in St. Paul, MN. It is funding for the completion of a commitment which Congress made last year…

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Nov 12, 2003

I observed, then, the time we devoted to this had already become excessive as indicated by the fact the statements being mailed were becoming increasingly repetitive and redundant. Now I see the added problem is, as we go even further…

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