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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Apr 8, 2007

I believe that we have to succeed. Otherwise, this country will have much greater problems than anything to do with my political ambitions.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Apr 5, 2007

John McCain is thinking twice about comments that he made in Iraq last Sunday.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Apr 4, 2007

What has happened over last several weeks is unacceptable. What we have found is a threat to the lives of pets -- dogs and cats -- across America. A threat that should have been minimized and maybe even avoided.

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Apr 4, 2007

What's happened over the last several weeks is unacceptable. What we have found is a threat to the lives of pets, dogs and cats, across America, a threat that should have been minimized and maybe even avoided.

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Mitt Romney
@mittromney· Republican · UT· Apr 4, 2007

I've been a hunter pretty much all of my life. I never really shot anything terribly big.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Apr 3, 2007

you could make a case that articles of impeachment might be appropriate, but ladies and gentlemen, politics is the art of the possible, not the constitutional.

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Apr 2, 2007

What I think is that we need to negotiate with the president from a position of strength. We are now a Democratic majority.

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Harry Reid
@harryreid· Democratic · NV· Apr 2, 2007

Well, the president has a swagger, and he has -- he's been very uncompromising. And that's the reason we're in the quagmire we're in, in Iraq. He should become in tune with the fact that he is president of the United States, not king of…

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Harry Reid
@harryreid· Democratic · NV· Apr 2, 2007

I do not believe there should be a single drop of American blood, additional blood, shed in Iraq. I do not believe there should be another head injury in Iraq of an American soldier. Let the Iraqis handle their own country.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Apr 2, 2007

We've got a war that I believe should have never been authorized and should have never been waged.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Apr 2, 2007

I obey the cardinal rule of any politician, and that is to ask you all for your vote.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Apr 2, 2007

And we will then review the situation and if you have not initiated the withdrawal at that point, then we may put you on an even shorter leash, right?

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Dick Durbin
@dickdurbin· Democratic · IL· Apr 2, 2007

I think when you have a company that discovers a problem that's killing animals and they don't report it for three weeks to the Food and Drug Administration, it is, at best, gross negligence.

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Tom Coburn
@tomcoburn· Republican · OK· Apr 2, 2007

I think we better be well prepared to defend the Option ARM portfolio.

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John McCain
@johnmccain· Republican · AZ· Apr 1, 2007

The American people are not getting the full picture of what's happening here. They're not getting the full picture of the drop in murders, the establishment of security outposts throughout the city, the situation in Anbar Province, the…

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Jeff Sessions
@jeffsessions· Republican · AL· Mar 28, 2007

I don't think it was a small matter. And I think the attorney general -- I'm disappointed he didn't remember that in his statement.

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