Jim Gibbons
Jim Gibbons
James Arthur "Jim" Gibbonsis an American attorney, aviator, geologist, hydrologist and politician. He served as the 28th Governor of the U.S. state of Nevada from 2007 to 2011. He is a former member of the United States House of Representatives, having served from 1997 to 2006. He is a member of the Republican Party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 December 1944
CountryUnited States of America
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Nevada leads the nation in our efforts to prevent this despicable crime by requiring sex offenders to be properly registered before they are issued a driver's license. Other states should follow Nevada's lead.
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May God bless America , the land of the free, the home of the brave and the greatest country on the face of this earth!
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Many Nevadans have contacted me in the past several weeks to express their concerns over scandals that have plagued politicians from both political parties, from Washington, D.C., to Carson City. The voting public is concerned that there is not enough transparency in Nevada's political process.
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When you combine the potential coaching opportunities out there and Pollard being decisive, I think that had a big part in it.
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an insult to Jim Gibbons and an insult to a lot of people across the state who have elected him in overwhelming numbers to five terms in Congress.
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They knew these communications satellites were one of America's most sensitive military and intelligence gathering technologies, ... Was there some other issue driving this change? America deserves to know the answers to these questions.
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very devastating to communities with a small tax base.
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I'm just like every other voter and taxpayer in the state of Nevada, ... I want to make sure that government does not overburden me as a taxpayer, but I also want to be sure we can fund our schools.
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He's not as dynamic or as flashy or as glamorous as some of the other potential candidates are, but Bush is not looking for a rock star, he's looking for a rock-solid person to do a serious job.
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To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.
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One volcano in Hawaii, one volcano in Indonesia, produces enough gases in the atmosphere, which include those natural elements that are in the Earth's crust, that, uh, kind of make all the, you know, the science that we have about what we produce, moot.
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Tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals [in Hollywood should]... go make their movies and their music and whine somewhere else.... It's just too damn bad we didn't buy them a ticket [to become human shields in Iraq].
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I am humbled and grateful for the four years the people of the state of Nevada have given me as governor and I am proud of the work we all did.
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I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn.