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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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.
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I don't see what purpose it serves by attacking one another at this point. If ever there was a time for us to present a unified front to Iraq, this ought to be it.
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I asked President Clinton to give us his observations about how we might work more closely together, and also as to how we ought to look at our own responsibilities as we see them in creating our agenda this year, ... How we articulate them and how we mesh that agenda with our presidential candidate will be the topic for conversation with President Clinton.
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I asked directly if we could delay this so we could depoliticize it. I said: 'Mr. President, I know this is urgent, but why the rush? Why do we have to do this now?' He looked at Cheney and he looked at me, and there was a half-smile on his face. And he said: 'We just have to do this now.'
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I am absolutely shocked to read in the paper this morning the terrorists just got their visas yesterday. I, for the life of me, can't understand how something like that can happen,
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I am pleased that Secretary Thompson has acknowledged the growing scandal over the Medicare drug bill and has pledged an independent inquiry into the misconduct,
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I don't want to see them left high and dry just like the Enron employees were left high and dry without any pension funds, without any retirement security,
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I don't think we are taken as seriously today as we were a few years ago.
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I believe all options ought to be on the table,
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I believe he would have been a great United States senator, just as he was a great governor,
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He campaigned hard in the states that he largely won two years ago. He had some coattails,
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All along, the administration vowed their policies would be painless,
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All of the Rush Limbaugh wannabes have a very shrill edge.