“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 recordApril 14, 1994
in closing, we talk about being a civilized society in this debate and I think life is often full of ironies. This Nation has been debating whether the penalty in Singapore ought to be carried out on a young man because he is going to be caned. The irony is as that debate rages, and most Americans, I believe, are opposed to the caning of that young man, here we are, the representative body of the people, about to impose the most heinous form of punishment, the death penalty, and I believe that to be wrong.
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Michael Kopetski
Democratic · Oregon
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Addressing the death penalty during a debate on punishment.

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