Richard Lugar
Richard Lugar
Richard Green "Dick" Lugaris an American politician and member of the Republican Party who served as a United States senator, representing Indiana from 1977 to 2013...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth4 April 1932
CityIndianapolis, IN
CountryUnited States of America
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We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.
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That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.
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I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.
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Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world.
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The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy.
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No one would have predicted in the 1980's that Americans and Russians would be working side-by-side on the ground in Russia destroying thousands of nuclear weapons systems, as well as biological and chemical weapons.