Bob Bennett
Bob Bennett
American Republican politician who served as a senator for Utah from 1993 to 2011.
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 September 1933
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It is unfortunate that members of the Duke community, players and families are being judged before all the facts are in. A lot of innocent young people and the families are being hurt, and unfortunately this situation is being abused by people with separate agendas. It is grossly unfair, and cool heads must prevail.
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It's not a good way to win. We have been given by the Florida Supreme Court a situation fraught with difficulty, no matter who is president.
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I am making it clear that my support for Yucca Mountain . . . does no longer hold in the situation we find ourselves, ... It makes sense for (nuclear) waste to be stored on site and to be shipped to a reprocessing center.
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is fully aware of what we're doing and is encouraging me to go forward.
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Sam Rayburn, after whom the House office building is named, used to keep a jar on his desk, and when lobbyists would come in to see him, they would deposit the appropriate envelope with cash.
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Of those, their point change was insignificant enough (not) to change our decision as to whether or not they would be admitted.
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As it now becomes clear, scientifically, legally and practically, Yucca Mountain is not going to become a single repository for nuclear waste, and we need to start thinking about new strategies and new places to deal with this,
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We are still going to require that students still take the SAT with the writing section, as well as the ACT.
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I think if you're going to be fair to our president, you owe him at least that,
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I tell you no such evidence exists. They have recycled a bunch of old rumors ... There is no pattern and you're not going to find a pattern.
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We just want to make sure it's safe. It just depends on how many folks we've got to help.
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You can disagree with the message, but don't shoot the messenger.
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We have a trial date set of May 27. I think you're all going to learn on May 27 that these six or seven hundred pages are like a big piece of cotton candy. When you bite into it, it just doesn't -- it just doesn't exist,
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Given the huge nature (of the disaster), it is inevitable there would be areas of failure. There are a lot of areas we can look and say could have been done better. But if we look at the overall dimensions of the thing, we have to cut some people some slack.