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Joe Scarborough

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Quotes by year · 19952026267 total · peak 1997 (71)
1995: 37 quotes1996: 34 quotes1997: 71 quotes1998: 34 quotes1999: 27 quotes2000: 9 quotes2001: 4 quotes2004: 1 quote2016: 1 quote2017: 1 quote2019: 2 quotes2020: 16 quotes2022: 2 quotes2025: 8 quotes2026: 20 quotes
Feb 16, 1995

If I could, and I know the gentleman needs to be going on, but could you just tell me if your experience coming to Washington, DC was the same as mine because I know we were both citizens and removed from this process, but were you not…

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Feb 16, 1995

It seems for the past 40 or so years we have had an institution in Congress that was not responsive to the needs of Americans across the country; that did not seem to care about what was going on in the lives of middle class Americans…

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Feb 16, 1995

anybody who has seen the Department of Education in Tallahassee, as I know you have, knows that that is enough of a bureaucracy for our children in the State of Florida, and I have got to tell you it is a duplication of services, not only…

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Feb 16, 1995

You know, again you talked about Jack Kemp and saying that they are good people. I have been asked the question of what is going to happen to all these good workers, especially in the education field because that is what I do. That is a…

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Feb 15, 1995

The question really should be framed not whether they funded radar in the 1920's and 1930's leading up to World War II but whether they were open-minded enough to be willing to look into funding radar technology. It seems to me that you…

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Feb 13, 1995

the big lie has been spread over the past few years across this country that the world is a safe place to live in now than it was 5 years ago. Well, the fact of the matter is there are as many nuclear weapons in Russia today as there were…

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Jan 23, 1995

with children dying in our Nation's streets, liberal Democratic leaders lament a book deal that even the Washington Post admits is proper, and while working men and women across the land struggle to survive until their next paycheck…

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Jan 20, 1995

I am excited to be a part of what I believe is the second American Revolution, because this year I truly believe that the American hour is upon us. It is time for this country and this Congress to decide once and for all which direction we…

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Jan 19, 1995

I have to ask you, in your reading of the balanced budget amendment as it is, does it seem to be ideologically driven by conservatism or by liberals, or is it value-neutral and policy-neutral as far as just what the goal is, and that is…

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Jan 19, 1995

Like you, I carried around a copy of the Constitution during my campaign, and I still do it today, simply because this is a second American Revolution that we are embarking upon. People have talked about the Contract With America for the…

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Jan 19, 1995

I must echo what he says, that the answers don't lie in Washington, and more importantly they don't lie on one side of the aisle. This is a battle that is going to be taken up on both sides of the aisle. I know on December 7, 1941, when…

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Jan 19, 1995

I could not help but be reminded, after hearing the gentleman from Arizona, about the press' criticism of this revolution of sorts that took place this year. I could not help but be reminded of an article that I just saw this past week in…

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Jan 19, 1995

If the gentleman would yield back, I cannot help but think about one particular agency in general, and I know, without getting into the specifics, I have wondered what has been happening with the Department of Education, a bureaucracy that…

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Jan 17, 1995

we have a new Congress that is moving forward with true reforms, with great changes for this country, for the 21st century. Yet all we hear from some obstructionists are stories about foxes guarding chicken houses, about GOPAC, about…

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Jan 11, 1995

for 40 years Congress has failed to do what middle-class Americans and State legislators across the country have done, and that is to balance the checkbook. Let the word go forth today that the checkbook has been passed for the first time…

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Jan 9, 1995

for 40 years, the Democrats have had control of this Nation's checkbook. For 40 years, they have failed miserably to do what middle class Americans have had to do and have failed miserably to do what State legislatures across this country…

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Jan 5, 1995

Yesterday was a truly exciting day not only for people all across America but especially for the people of the First Congressional District of Florida. I think like people across the country, we have become too cynical about our…

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