Richard Burr
Richard Burr
Richard Mauze Burris the senior United States Senator from North Carolina having served since 2005. A member of the Republican Party, Burr represented North Carolina's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2005. Prior to his political career, he worked for seventeen years in private business with Carswell Distributing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 November 1955
CountryUnited States of America
No one can get to the Right of me.
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Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.
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We remember Ronald Reagan as a man who maximized his gifts from an unknown to an actor to a Governor to the leader of the Free World.
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This is a limiting factor in the way we have been able to help, ... We need to determine to what extent does an 'emergency declaration' go.
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If there are witnesses the government interviewed who suggest other people were involved or that Tim McVeigh was not involved, those are critical matters that would have to be investigated.
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Increased funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program is a priority for the Bush Administration, and I am pleased that many families in North Carolina will benefit from this increase.
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Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror.
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It is critical that we have a comprehensive energy plan to provide affordable and reliable supplies of energy so that our economy will not be dependent on foreign sources of energy.
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I'd love to tell you that something is going to change tomorrow. But the reality is that it won't.
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The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to... New Orleans.
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In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead.
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The terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way we think about security.
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We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.
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A dynamic praying church must be built from the inside out, employing all four levels of prayer: the secret closet, the family altar, small group praying and finally, the congregational setting.