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“Three months is a lifetime in politics,” (Ace Goodman)
“We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion [Iran] and surgical strikes aren't going to work.” (Ace Goodman)
“Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most destructive trends of the global economy.” (Ace Goodman)
“I didn't see the weapons of mass destruction at the time, I didn't think there was an imminent threat from Saddam Hussein.” (Ace Goodman)
“John Kerry believes in America.” (Ace Goodman)
“In the end, ... that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism, or do we participate in a politics of hope?” (Ace Goodman)
“We as Democrats have not been very interested in poverty or issues relating to the inner city as much as we should have. Think about the last presidential campaign: It's pretty hard to focus a moment on which there was any attention given.” (Ace Goodman)
“The encouraging thing is that in the aftermath of this fiasco everybody is outraged and the generosity of white suburban Republicans as well as black liberal Democrats indicates that the country wants better from its government and wants better from its politics, ... The burden is on us as Democrats, the burden is on me as a U.S. senator to help bridge that gap.” (Ace Goodman)
“I think a good place to start would be for both Democrats and Republicans to say ? we are willing to experiment and invest on anything that works,” (Ace Goodman)
“What people want to know is who has a set of concrete plans to help them send their kids to college, or save for retirement.” (Ace Goodman)
“we are a couple of U.S. senators.” (Ace Goodman)
“The Russian Federation only allows [international] departures from three airports in the country, not from Perm,” (Ace Goodman)
“In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, now you have these dispersed power centers, ... They are clearly still working out the kinks.” (Ace Goodman)
“There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.” (Ace Goodman)
“To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent.” (Ace Goodman)
“There's been this argument, somehow, that we can pay for (Hurricane) Katrina entirely by (spending) cuts, across-the-board cuts," (Ace Goodman)
“We can't accomplish what we need to accomplish by across-the-board cuts, because some of those across-the-board cuts would mean 5 percent cuts in food stamps or 5 percent cuts in Medicaid precisely at a time when the poor are being burdened,” (Ace Goodman)
“I think his legacy can be seen in the African-Americans who have achieved success in corporate board rooms, in starting businesses, I think that my own success as U.S. Senator might not be possible had it not been for the shift in peoples' perceptions about what African-Americans could accomplish in this country,” (Ace Goodman)
“Mr. Bennett should immediately apologize to the nation for making a statement that clearly crossed the line.” (Ace Goodman)
“All of the workers have masks on. Why don't we? ... This doesn't breed a lot of confidence.” (Ace Goodman)
“It's one thing when you're reading about a nuclear site in a book. It's another thing to be able to describe what I've seen, ... You realize as a senator there are so many issues out there tugging on people, you've got to make things vivid for them in order to capture people's attention.” (Ace Goodman)
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