Political Quotes

John D.S. Allen

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Mar 11, 2025

Ending incessant federal interference will free up state and local leaders to foster more opportunities.

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Sep 30, 2022

the closer they get to January 3rd of next year, the more likely it is that they will no longer exist. Meaning, if Republicans take control of the House in the midterm elections, they`re going to shut down this Committee or reverse it and…

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Aug 31, 2022

If they go against Trump, there’s a reasonable likelihood that they will be defeated in primaries.

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Aug 31, 2022

Most voters in Pennsylvania don’t think that there should be a total ban on abortion, which is a position that Dr. Oz has taken.

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Sep 12, 2021

I support the vaccine mandate. I wrote about this in The Washington Post last month. We hit the limit of the voluntary approach. We’ve tried the hand-holding, we’ve tried cajoling, we’ve tried the beer and the lotteries. It’s not working…

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Mar 1, 2021

I`ve never seen anything like it, Brian. The alacrity with which the Democratic Party joined behind Joe Biden after he won South Carolina is something that we`ve never seen before.

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Jul 22, 2020

To leave the fate of Afghan women and girls to the Afghan government and Taliban dialog is a massive abdication of American and international responsibility to support universal human rights.

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Jul 22, 2020

The Taliban will never accord Afghan women and girls the respect and the place in the future Afghan society that they deserve.

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Jun 3, 2020

It's all about leadership, Anderson. Any reform is about leadership.

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Jun 3, 2020

It has got to be about the future, bringing our people together and resolving these issues of inequality.

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Jun 3, 2020

This is an opportunity for reform from the bottom up. And it's an opportunity for leadership from the top down.

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Jun 3, 2020

This is the chance the President has. And I hope he'll seize it.

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Jan 14, 2020

The fact that you--Congressman Rose and your colleagues--have convened this hearing to confront this problem and look for more effective ways we can stop it and roll it back gives me hope.

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Jan 14, 2020

The fact that elected leaders from President Trump to Governor Cuomo and Governor Murphy and many others have not only spoken out against this surge of anti-Semitic and anti-Orthodox Jewish attacks--but undertaken concrete actions to have…

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Jan 14, 2020

So this is an issue that is very much on my mind and in our hearts, but I am a CIA analyst by training, and so while I respect the view and certainly have lived the experience that anti-Semitism is as old as the world, we cannot dance…

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May 2, 2019

the pain isn't just with one student or a couple of students, it spreads across the campus.

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May 2, 2019

I am here today as a young person, a student, a voter, and a passionate advocate of voting rights.

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Aug 1, 2016

I think we would be facing civil military crisis the like of which we have not seen in this country before.

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Oct 27, 2015

The security of Jordan is extraordinarily important to the United States and to the region.

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Sep 23, 2015

Their question is how are we going to implement that doctrine at the retail level, OK, in the trenches? Are we going to put the emphasis on judgment or are we going to put the emphasis on mercy?

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Sep 23, 2015

I think he's utterly revitalized the political and diplomatic relevance of the Vatican in our tie, which seemed to be at the low end not so long ago.

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Sep 23, 2015

I think Pope Francis is the new Nelson Mandela. That he's the new sort of voice of moral conscience on the global stage that people recognize as sort of being able to indicate where the side of the angle stands.

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Apr 29, 2014

Your election represents one of the most historic moments in the modern history of your country: the peaceful transition from one elected government to another.

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Apr 29, 2014

The knockout blow in insurgency is not delivered by the military. The knockout blow is delivered by the development of credible governance and economic opportunity.

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