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Sam Brownback

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Sam Brownback is a Republican politician who served as the Governor of Kansas from 2011 to 2018. Prior to his governorship, he was a U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1996 to 2011 and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 1996. Brownback is known for his conservative positions on social issues and his advocacy for tax cuts and economic development in Kansas. During his tenure as governor, he implemented significant tax reforms aimed at stimulating the state's economy, although these policies faced criticism and led to budgetary challenges.

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Dec 3, 2003

We don't want them really to beat us to the moon, and instead we'd rather be there and be able to develop the resources, the areas, the sweet spots for observation.

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Nov 12, 2003

I have been listening, and I think the Senator from Pennsylvania puts forward a brilliant and eloquent argument, and it gets to the nub of what we are talking about instead of the areas. It is in this last 4-year time period that a…

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Nov 12, 2003

The number speaks for itself. Absolutely, this is a mainstream judge. When you get approved on that percentage of your cases that you have ruled on--remember, this is at the district court level, so he is both finding fact and applying…

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Nov 12, 2003

Isn't this a much bigger issue than the appointees? Those law changes were bigger than filibustering one law. This is about the impact on all of society, on a whole culture.

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Oct 30, 2003

Arafat's regime is evil from top to bottom.

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Oct 30, 2003

The time has come to recognize that the Palestinian Authority is not a partner for peace.

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Oct 30, 2003

There is strong precedent for cutting off relations with the PA.

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Oct 30, 2003

Yasser Arafat has demonstrated a manifest unwillingness to address this issue.

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Sep 24, 2003

This is where we are, and he's right.

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Sep 24, 2003

We don't want Iraq. That is I don't. You could poll a million Kansans if you want to and I don't know if you'll find one that says that we want that.

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Sep 22, 2003

One slight suggestion I would make to you, as you go about rebuilding Iraq, there is a great pool of resources available in the United States in the small business area.

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Sep 22, 2003

It seems to me that that is a very important part of this story that needs to be told.

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Sep 22, 2003

I'm from the 'show me' State, and what they're showing us is that the battle against terrorism is being carried out in Iraq today.

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Sep 22, 2003

It seems to me that we have been under attack.

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Sep 22, 2003

We have to do what I believe this administration is doing.

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Sep 22, 2003

It does no good to supply $66 billion for maintaining our troops if there's no exit strategy.

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Sep 22, 2003

We've got to keep moving them down Ambassador Bremer's seven-point plan towards developing a constitution, ratifying a constitution, and ultimately having elections and transferring sovereignty.

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Sep 22, 2003

What that called for was regime change in Baghdad, because we had been fussing around for a long period of time with Saddam Hussein.

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Sep 22, 2003

I was in the Congress, in the 105th Congress, when we put forward the Iraq Liberation Act.

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Sep 22, 2003

State-of-the-art must be obtained so that they can train effectively.

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Sep 22, 2003

I think it is time we also report the successes.

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Sep 22, 2003

I said, 'Well, get them to us. I'll go to the floor of the United States Senate, and I know about 18,000 or 19,000 C-SPAN junkies.'

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