- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have strong reasons for being a Democrat. Basically if you want true fairness in society, you want to give a voice in the corridors of power for the people who otherwise would not have it, I believe that will come from the Democratic Party.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ronald Reagan came in - he was a leader. Some of my Democratic friends don't like it when I say that. He had a vision where he wanted to take the country, and things started moving again.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a very tough thing to run for office, but it's also the way the American people get to know you.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was counsel on the full veterans committee, the first Vietnam veteran to serve as a full-committee counsel in Congress. It stunned me that there was a 600,000-case backlog of claims. During my time in the Senate, it became 900,000.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father went back into the military in 1947 and was gone for 3-1/2 years, my mother was 24 years old with four kids in a town she didn't know that well with no military services available, no family services available through the military, and that was the norm.
- Building Blocks
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that I would focus on immediate goals that inspired me to devote all of my energy to them, rather than putting together the more cautious and traditional building blocks of a predictable career.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
On any given vote, on any given day, a smart senator who has taken a bold or controversial position can reach far more media outlets between the elevator and the Senate chamber than he or she could garner in a full press conference back home.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Senate floor is and always has been the great arena of our democracy. I spent eight years in my younger life as a boxer, and sometimes when I enter the chamber, I think, 'This is the ring. The American people can see us here and listen to our arguments. This is where the fights matter.'
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your first six months in the Senate, you spend a lot of time wondering how the hell you got here. After that, you look around at your colleagues and wonder how the hell any of them got here.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have proudly spent several periods in government, but I'm not a career politician. I come from a family of 'citizen soldiers.'
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father served 26 years in the Air Force as a pilot and a pioneer in our missile programs. I learned early about the sacrifices a family makes when a member is repeatedly deployed, and also the fulfillment that comes from serving our country. My brother, my son and I all became Marines.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found a fulfilling career as an author and journalist. But again and again, I came back to the personal fulfillment that can only come from public service.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout the world, our insistence on individual freedom and opportunity has been at the bottom of what people think when they hear the very word 'American.'
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just like the people and the culture of Southeast Asia.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a minister can lead the Senate in prayer every day... what is so wrong with beginning every day of school with an ecumenical prayer?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020