Joe Lieberman
Joe Lieberman
Joseph Isadore "Joe" Liebermanis an American politician and former United States Senator from Connecticut. A former member of the Democratic Party, he was the party's nominee for Vice President in the 2000 election. Currently an independent, he remains closely associated with the party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth24 February 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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growth learned occurs private
I think what we've learned is that when growth occurs, it occurs in the private sector,
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He didn't get away with it tonight. Gov. Bush tried a lot of the stuff that he has gotten away with in the campaign so far, and Al Gore was right there on target with the facts. The fact is that it is Governor Bush who's overspending the projected surplus, and Al Gore is staying within the surplus.
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It gives America's native ingenuity and private-sector entrepreneurship the help they need from government that will enable them to build a new century of progress and upward mobility for the American people.
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This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing.
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We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe.
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Hollywood has glorified adult premarital sex, and that is unhelpful if your goal is to reduce teen pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births.
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I have a reputation for giving unpopular answers at Democratic debates. I never used marijuana. Sorry!
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[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.
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John Adams, second president of the United States, wrote that our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.... George Washington warned us never to indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
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Dear Mr. President: ... We urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraq sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.
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The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs.
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I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.
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I'm a Harry Truman, JFK, Scoop Jackson and Bill Clinton Democrat.
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The American military will never lose the war in Iraqif lost, it will be lost by a lack of political will.