“Everything will get better.”
“I’m popular”
“for humanitarian reasons”
“We are unstoppable.”
“There is certainly much more, I believe, voter fraud in this country.”
“I vowed not to let Israel or America’s friends in the Persian Gulf 'get hurt or fail in any way, shape, or form.'”

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On the recordJuly 20, 2010
The people of Louisiana have suffered a lot of catastrophes: the BP explosion, fishing industry's down, the tourism industry is down. Now, to add insult to injury, we have the moratorium which is costing thousands of jobs in Louisiana. What's the result? ``Three deepwater drilling rigs to be moved from sites south of Cameron Parish.'' ``First rig sails away over drilling ban'' to Egypt. ``Brazil sees silver lining in BP spill: more rigs.'' Mr. Speaker, where are the jobs? Well, in the deepwater drilling they're going to be moved to other nations. ____________________
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