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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Nov 14, 1971

We believe we can have freedom and have that freedom without the irresponsibility of inflation.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Jan 31, 1971

This Administration intends to carry out that responsibility fully and fairly.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Jan 13, 1971

It is no comfort to me that when I came into office I wrote 300 of those letters a week and that this week I will write 27. One is too many.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Jan 1, 1971

In America, law enforcement has been and must remain primarily the responsibility of State and local governments.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 13, 1966

Our thoughts of what we could, what we should, and what we must do to meet these problems.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 14, 1966

I hope that you will enter into these discussions knowing that you are a very select group in which great trust is placed and which bears great responsibility.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Jun 6, 1966

I do not believe that you want it said of your generation that you committed social suicide.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· May 10, 1966

The responsible intellectual who moves between his campus and Washington knows, above all, that his task is, in the language of the current generation, to 'cool it'.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 24, 1966

The awesome responsibility which was his both in the office of Secretary of Defense and in his other official duties testifies to the respect and confidence of his associates.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Mar 20, 1966

The task of protecting the consumer cannot and should not be left solely to the Federal Government.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· May 26, 1965

I have stressed that we must reorganize and modernize the Government's organization structure in order to focus responsibilities, increase efficiency, and meet present-day needs more effectively.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· May 18, 1965

There is too much at stake for us to consider for a moment that a position of responsibility is to be parceled out either as a plum of patronage or as a reward for partisanship.

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