“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“AI is not going anywhere. It has both promise and peril. I just want us to be thinking critically about this from all angles.”
“I’d be worried about a massive economic slowdown. You know, the impact of Wall Street on Main Street, and I’d be worried about job losses.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”

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On the recordMay 22, 2012
If you are going to go to war, you want to go to war with China over the South China Sea, you better lay the predicate.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho
Source
congress.gov

Editor's note · Context

Risch emphasizes the importance of exhausting peaceful options before military action against China.

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