Kent Conrad Quotes

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• Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.
• The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.
• Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.
• I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.
• America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.
• Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible…
• It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and…
• Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not the best educated,…
• So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.
• We shouldn't just live for today; we should prepare for tomorrow.
• Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.
• Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?
• The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand…
• Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it…
• The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal…
• Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.
• I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world…
• Social Security has not contributed to the deficit problem.
• When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for…

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