Decent Quote by Charles W. Pickering

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“A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.”

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In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children.

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Millions of Americans every year depend upon medical imaging exams to diagnose disease and detect injury, and thousands more rely on radiation therapy to…

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The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without…

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In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of…

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Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.

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The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes…

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Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily…

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The CARE bill is an important piece of patient-care legislation. It will improve the quality of radiologic procedures performed throughout the United States as…

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The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

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America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our…

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Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.

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If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be…

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You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.

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For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble…

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If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

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Music and the arts feed our souls, but a decent wage puts food on the table. Musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations…

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The 'key-log' which must be moved to release the evolutionary process for an ethic is simply this: quit thinking about decent land-use as solely an economic problem. Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and esthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty…

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The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops around a major artery, then goes all the way back up again. It goes right past the larynx on the way down. All a decent designer would have to do is loop it off at that…

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Every New Yorker spends a certain amount of nervous energy thinking, "How can I afford to stay here? What do I have to sell in order to stay here, where I have an economic life and where I like my life?" At least back to the beginning of the twentieth century, New Yorkers have always complained that it's hard to…

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