Richard Lugar Quotes

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• If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the…
• We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.
• By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.
• I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.
• Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.
• Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world…
• That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of…
• The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status…
• I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise,…
• There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.
• We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
• Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than…
• I think there is a commitment on the part of the White House to racial justice in this country, and no ambiguity.
• Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have…
• The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the 24 Iraqis or…
• The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran…
• Americans who may be going to the largest embassy we've ever had.
• It's very unlikely that we're going to send more troops to Iraq. We are going to have to train the Iraqis faster and harder.

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