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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There was a sense I had from the very beginning that this was in part politically motivated, and they were going to maximize the timing to affect those who were having some doubt about this right before the election,
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If you burden any vehicle ultimately that vehicle stops,
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In the end I believe the American people will support him,
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Instead of passing another big tax cut that we can't afford -- a tax cut that leaves out middle-class families -- we need a fair, responsible tax cut,
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Instead of finding a real solution to the growing unemployment crisis, this bill will give millions to those who don't need it and very little to those who do, ... It will add a trillion dollars to our national debt; spend the Social Security trust fund and ultimately lose more jobs.
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How can John Ashcroft enforce laws he has spent his entire public career fighting?
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I don't know if anybody can say with any real confidence how good a job he's doing or the office is doing because we have such little information.
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By choosing to oppose the University of Michigan, President Bush called into question his commitment to expanding opportunity for African-American, Hispanic, and Native American students,
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By shipping nuclear waste on trucks and trains and barges, we may very well be creating hundreds, even thousands, of rolling dirty bombs. What sense does that make?
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If if looks like we're going to face a filibuster, we're going to find the time and find the way to break that filibuster in the United States Senate.
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I'd have to say that we could do a lot better than Harvey Pitt in that position today, ... huge disappointment.
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I can't think of anything that would divide this nation more quickly, right off the bat, than to impress upon the Congress the importance of passing a tax cut of that magnitude,
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I certainly agree with those who have grown impatient with hair-splitting over legal technicalities, ... There is a basic understanding of the standard of truthfulness that the president failed to meet.
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I cannot recall a time when the gap between the demands we place on our soldiers and the thanks we offer them once they return home has been wider.