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Jim DeMint
@jimdemint· Republican · SC· Jun 13, 2006

I know exactly what it is, because I'm an old retail guy. And what this is, is the government telling retailers how to run their business.

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Jim DeMint
@jimdemint· Republican · SC· Jun 13, 2006

I think once we interject this idea of discrimination onto the Internet... we're going to create another litigation playground for the trial lawyers.

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Jim Clyburn
@jimclyburn· Democratic · SC· Apr 4, 2006

I was not there. I have no idea what took place. But I have faith and confidence in our system.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Mar 27, 2006

We have to recognize that for several generations, people have made America home. And we've accepted the benefit of their labor.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 10, 2006

Men and women, black and white, your colleagues who say that Sam Alito, whether I agree with him or not, is a really good man.

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 10, 2006

I know abortion is important. It's important to me. It's important to you. I know it's an important central concept in our jurisprudence. But we can't build a judiciary around that one issue. We can't make judges pledge allegiance to one…

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Lindsey Graham
@lindseygraham· Republican · SC· Jan 9, 2006

The idea that our president or this administration took the law in their own hands and ignored the precedent of other presidents or case law and just tried to make a power grab, I don't agree with.

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Joe Wilson
@joewilson· Republican · SC· Aug 23, 2005

To smear Sheehan rather than hear her is un-American and undemocratic.

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Joe Wilson
@joewilson· Republican · SC· Aug 1, 2005

Clearly, it was a decision the CIA made. And they made it because, again, I had spent a lot of time with the most senior officials in Niger over the previous decade, and developed a considerable amount of credibility with them.

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Joe Wilson
@joewilson· Republican · SC· Aug 1, 2005

There would be only one reason for Saddam Hussein to be purchasing uranium yellowcake from Niger and that would be to resuscitate his nuclear weapons program. It was important to check it out.

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Joe Wilson
@joewilson· Republican · SC· Aug 1, 2005

Before the hunger crisis, what did we know about Niger? A murky connection between Saddam, uranium, the CIA and a mystery leading to the White House.

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Joe Wilson
@joewilson· Republican · SC· Aug 1, 2005

It's really a very simple story. A legitimate question was raised. A citizen with particular expertise went out and attempted to answer the question, as did others. The answers were ignored.

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Joe Wilson
@joewilson· Republican · SC· Aug 1, 2005

The fact remains, if you kind of look at this from a number of different angles, you can't get out from under the fact that the French mining company is the organization that is the only organization that has its hands on the product.

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Joe Wilson
@joewilson· Republican · SC· Jul 13, 2005

his wife's CIA cover was blown. Now former Ambassador Joe Wilson wants Karl Rove fired even if he didn't break the law.

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Joe Wilson
@joewilson· Republican · SC· Jul 13, 2005

I find that to be an outrageous abuse of power from a senior White House official.

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Joe Wilson
@joewilson· Republican · SC· Jul 13, 2005

Well, it strikes me that it's typical of a Rove-type operation -- slime and defend is what it's called in the past.

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