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
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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.
distrust
What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.
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Our right to privacy is at risk. As a result, some of our most sensitive, private matters end up on databases that are then sold to the highest bidder. That is wrong, it's dangerous, and it has to stop.
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Our tax cut has to fit in within a responsible budget,
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America can't afford to keep rewarding the accumulation of wealth over the dignity of work,
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They don't want a $1.6 trillion dollar tax cut. Now they want a $3.2 trillion dollar tax cut. I don't know why they don't just give the entire federal budget away,
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As we speak, the Senate is in session,
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All of us are left to draw one conclusion: His words about promoting educational opportunity were just that -- words.
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a world opinion that now holds America in lower esteem than ever before.
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All along, the administration vowed their policies would be painless,
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this ought to be reviewed very carefully... with regard to what it was we knew, what actions were taken, what statements were correct, and which ones were incorrect. The sooner we can acquire that information the better for the country.
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There really is no more important issue Congress should be working on this year, and in this time of unprecedented economic growth there is no reason why we shouldn't be,
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There's a little bit of chutzpah in there, and a whole lot of ambition.
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This may be the first budget in history that wasn't just dead on arrival -- it was dead before arrival.