“I've got religious leaders constantly calling me and saying, 'I'm scared. My parishioners are scared.'”
“We are making sure that working people will not be priced out of the game that they helped to create.”
“It extends to making it possible for every New Yorker to take part in the things that make us human.”
“anti-Semitic incidents in the country are up 70%.”

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On the recordDecember 21, 2010
Madam President, with all due respect to my good friend from Maryland, this is exactly the right vehicle to bring this up. This is a vehicle of trust, and it is a vehicle that puts some teeth in an otherwise toothless thing. As far as human rights versus this stolen property, this is very objective, it is hard, you can see it. The human rights violations I think are entirely different. They certainly are important. They certainly rise to as high a level, but this is objective. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's time has expired.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho
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