Quotes."I wish it hadn't happened because it's not going to help us keep our majority." --Rep. Ralph Regula Ralph Regula (born December 3, 1924 in Beach City, Ohio) is a Representative in the United States Congress from the 16th District of the State of Ohio, elected to his 18th term in November 2006. (R-Ohio), expressing his feelings on the Jack Abramoff Jack Abramoff (born February 28, 1959) is a former American political lobbyist, a Republican political activist and businessman who was a central figure in a series of high-profile political scandals. scandal, quoted by the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. , January 5 "He was dividing God's land, and I would say, 'Woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the E.U., the United Nations or the United States of America UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The name of this country. The United States, now thirty-one in number, are Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, .'" --televangelist Pat Robertson, suggesting divine retribution as a possible cause of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's falling health, on The 700 Club, January 5 "There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys, that I am their friend.... I was a little hurt that this betrayal did happen." --former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, on being mugged at gunpoint in his kitchen, quoted in The Washington Post, January 4 "What the Republicans need is 50 Jack Abramoffs. Then this becomes a different town." --Graver Norquist, president of the lobbying group Americans for Tax Reform Americans for Tax Reform is an interest group seeking to reduce the overall level of taxation in the United States, at the federal, state and local level. Its founder and president is Grover Norquist, an influential Republican lobbyist. , quoted in The National Journal, July 29,1995 |
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