Tom Daschle
Tom Daschle
Thomas Andrew "Tom" Daschleis a policy advisor, lobbyist, former U.S. Senator from South Dakota, and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader. He is a member of the Democratic Party...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 December 1947
distrust
What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.
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We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.
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The campaign is over. It's time for the work of governing to begin.
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You've got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We'll see how it all shakes out.
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Let there be no doubt: the state of our union is strong - stronger than the terrorists who seek to harm us and stronger than the challenges that confront us. At the same time, we know that our union can be stronger still.
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It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be.
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We must correct the problems and inequities in the way we conduct and decide elections in the United States.
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We must govern from the middle, or we will not be able to govern at all.
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I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he handled this budget.
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The president will veto it, and there are ample votes to sustain the veto. So, that was an exercise in total futility,
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The president began to make his case to us today,
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The president had a very aggressive agenda in the first two years, an agenda that required much more unity than we were able to achieve.
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We haven't made progress. We've moved back from progress, ... a half-measure only.
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We have not been briefed, and we have not been given any new intelligence information,