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Chellie Pingree

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CHELLIE PINGREE If they put up something that just looks like window-dressing, it won't be supported by the public. ...
CHELLIE PINGREE It's mostly window dressing. I don't think this will pass the straight-face test.
CHELLIE PINGREE It's clear that Rep. DeLay saw the writing on the wall and expects to be implicated like his close a...
CHELLIE PINGREE This legislation is so weak it's embarrassing.
CHELLIE PINGREE Breakfast, lunch, dinner and cocktail parties to boot. The normal American citizen doesn't have that...
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CHELLIE PINGREE The fact that public servants who have seriously violated their duties to the public would be reward...
CHELLIE PINGREE The danger is that they are going to talk about a variety of proposals that will look more like wind...
CHELLIE PINGREE This is an enormous problem for our democracy and it really is at a crisis point. More and more peop...
CHELLIE PINGREE Congress has proven beyond any doubt that it is not up to the task of policing the conduct of its ow...
CHELLIE PINGREE Companies get an incredible return on their investment and feel they can't stop spending the money. ...
CHELLIE PINGREE When you're elected to Congress, you take a vow to uphold the Constitution and its system of che...
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CHELLIE PINGREE Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.
CHELLIE PINGREE Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has been one of my good friends in the House of Representatives. Wh...
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CHELLIE PINGREE Corporations serve an important purpose, but telling people how to vote isn't one of them.
CHELLIE PINGREE In Maine, we are fortunate to have a Clean Elections system that allows legislators to turn down cor...
CHELLIE PINGREE One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.
CHELLIE PINGREE I work in a world of words - words that inspire, words that persuade and, increasingly, words that c...
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CHELLIE PINGREE No one branch of the U.S. government should have supremacy over the other two.
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CHELLIE PINGREE Everyone agrees we need to get more freight on to rail. But the Government is cutting the grant nece...
CHRIS GRAYLING The problem, ... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.
JOHN MCCAIN Dialogue is good, ... America used to talk to Iraq all the time. Members of Congress don't have any ...
DENNIS KUCINICH Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
DIANE ACKERMAN The assumption is questions have been answered and everyone agrees.
DAVID LAKE Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of re...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG (I support efforts) to limit the terms of the members of Congress, especially members of the House a...
DAN QUAYLE The problem we have had on the budget all along is a lack of adult supervision on the part of the Wh...
BRUCE BARTLETT To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the...
SHūSAKU ENDō As legislators and as Members of Congress, it is our obligation to speak up for those who are being ...
GWEN MOORE Basically everyone agrees that building the wall is really what not needs to be done, and we need to...
ELIZABETH GALLAGHER I fundamentally believe in term limits, for Congress, presidents, and board members.
JIM BREYER Everyone agrees that the London meeting is potentially a critical chapter in the peace process which...
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AMANDA AUSTIN Everyone in this World is Good, But not to everyone.
FAIQA JAHANGIR There were a band of misfits. They didn't set out to conquer the world or get in the Library of Cong...
CHARLES CROSS While many members of Congress have some reservations, members of Congress by and large have decided...
MARTIN FROST That's just not the appropriate venue for that, ... The appropriate venue for that is in front of Co...
DENNIS SHIELDS Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
SAMUEL E. MORISON The momentum usually gets to a fever pitch when the prices get high. You can bet that the members of...
KATERI CALLAHAN Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
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ALEX GRAY It is building, and these type of activities and the support of members of Congress can only help th...
JOE MADISON A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually
ABBA EBAN A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
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LEWIS CARROLL A love lust for war ends in death...
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CAROLYN MCCARTHY It is not secret here in Congress we have not had the discipline in many instances to keep our hands...
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RACHEL WARD As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.
SHEILA JACKSON LEE The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
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BARRY WEST If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
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