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We've been handed an incredible opportunity and the trick will be getting people to recognize that fact.

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Packing the Ethics Committee with DeLay loyalists further immunizes the Republican congressional leadership not just from the Democrats but also from democracy.

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Someone shouts food fight food starts flying management comes and tells us to get out or we're calling the police.

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Texas is still every bit as great as it ever was. We simply need leaders bold enough to release its greatness.

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Border state governors are in a position to shine light on these issues and get the ball moving forward.

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This is why we need ethics reform now. Rick Perry is trying to sell a school finance plan that has no new money for schools, and he's raising corporate money to do it.

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A revenue-neutral proposal is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

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I want to see how the Arizona plan works out, utilizing the National Guard. It would be more expensive for the state of Texas, ... but if it's successful there, I think we're going to have to perhaps consider that type of plan.

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At the end of the day, you'll have three Republicans and one Democrat. I'm happy with those numbers.

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We're going to have to get past our defeatist attitude if we're going to win again.

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The dropout figures reported by the school districts are a bit misleading aa they don't really touch on the attrition rate. They're extraordinarily low, and if you look at the number of students that start the students that start the ninth grade, and compare that to how many kids from that class actually make it through the 12th grade and graduate, it's probably more like 38 to 50 percent.

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So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.

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I think there was some burgers, and I know there was some french fries. I had been in school for two weeks. That's why my parents were so pleased, getting off to such a glorious start. Getting thrown in the clink in the first month.

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Tom DeLay is a gift that keeps on giving, and has been for a long time.

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By raiding the surplus to pay for a property-tax cut, Perry is proposing a plan that is still 1 billion short of inadequate because it forgets one very important thing schools.

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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks.

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I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong.

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They're not going to simply work here for a couple of years, then sign up to be deported back home. It hasn't happened in our history, and it's laughable to think it's going to happen.

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Turnovers, field position and key mistakes, that was it. Both of their touchdowns came off our turnovers. We let them hang around, they hung around and seized the opportunity.

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Penn State is Penn State, and I like what they stand for, ... I didn't want to miss their climb to the top.

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Ethics in government has always been important to me.

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Some people have an ongoing poker game. We had an ongoing Twister game.

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I don't pretend to be perfect I've made mistakes just like everybody else. When I have, I've owned up to the mistakes and moved forward.

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The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy.

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The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it.

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