Ed Rendell
Ed Rendell
Edward Gene "Ed" Rendellan American lawyer and politician who served as the 45th Governor of Pennsylvania, from 2003 to 2011. Rendell, a member of the Democratic Party, served as mayor of Philadelphia from 1992 to 2000...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 January 1944
CountryUnited States of America
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I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.
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Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it's produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked.
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We will not lose this election for lack of money.
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I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.
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The single most important thing you can do to get elected is to have street money!
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I don't think anyone can calculate the effect of having a Jew on the ticket.
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The I-95 bridges were built in the early 1960s and are now more than 50 years old. The same vintage as the I-35 bridge that collapsed in Minnesota back in 2007, killing 13 people and injuring 145. The antiquated Skagit River Bridge in Washington state that collapsed last May after a truck hit one of the trusses was even older. And it's not just bridges. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, 32 percent of the major roads in America are now in poor condition and in need of major repairs.
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
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There are people on the left who think John Kerry's too conservative, as well as the Bush administration that's trying to paint him as a wild-spending liberal.
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It's like preparing for a party and learning only 1/10th of the guest are coming,
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If we do that, I think we'll find a lot more children, ... It's an idea whose time has come.
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The whole process of TV commercials and direct mail is intended to inform the voters.
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America has lost one of the great civil rights activists of our time. ... She did it with dedication, class, grace and dignity,
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Once these units return, it's important that they have the equipment to train and perform their vital military missions, ... The lack of equipment has not yet resulted in an inability to respond ... but it does not take much imagination to foresee a contingency where there could be negative impacts.