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This is just not the Democratic Party we used to know.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Democratic
Democratic Party
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I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Black And White
Overused
Thinking
Vocabulary
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Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Next
President
Romney
Skills
Exact
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Require
Skill
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Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Country
Labels
Possibility
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Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Running
Congress
Four
Strategy
Years
Four-Year
Network
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The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Alabama
Progress
Racist
Repeal
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This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Ocean
Finance
Bills
Debt
Healing
Moving
Order
Pay
Planets
Instead
Oceans
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I know 100 percent what it's like to have people tell you that you can't hold an office because of your color, and to have people vote based on that belief.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Color
Office
People
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You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Favors
Losing
Reality
Favor
More And More
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Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
America
Land
Second Chance
Fix
Chances
Estimated
Gather
Second Chances
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The Democrats' ads convince me that Governor Romney can't sing, but his record convinces me he knows how to lead, and I think you know which skill we need more.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Ads
Convince
Governor Romney
Needs
Romney
Skills
Thinking
Me Know More
Democrats
Lead
Governor
Sing
Skill
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John F. Kennedy asked us what we could do for America. This Democratic Party asks what can government give you. Don't worry about paying the bill, it's on your kids and grandkids.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Kids
Government
Democratic
Democratic Party
Grandkids
Party
Worry
Asked
Bill
John
Paying
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We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Giving
Hunger
Inequality
Lectures
Levels
Party
Poverty
Rose
Flowery
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Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Government
Compassion
Sound
Afford
Democrats
They Say
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Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are exercising their rights - that's suppression by any light.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Citizens
Function
Suppression
Exercising
Nonexistent
Votes
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This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Blessed
Champion
Dark
Dawn
Sweet
Absorb
Bend
Blows
Hour
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When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work?
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Jobs
Blast
Children
Men And Women
Occupy Wall Street
Wall
Success Work Women
Glorified
Minimize
Occupy
Wall Street
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Historyis nothing other than a collection of the lives of people, some of them great, some of them ordinarynothing other than a collection of what people have done in challenging circumstances and how they have risen to those circumstances.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Challenges
Done
People
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The Democratic Party has gotten narrower and it's gotten smaller and it's fundamentally wrong on all the key questions involving the economic future of this country and our hopes of prosperity. And many Americans are beginning to realize that.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Democratic
Democratic Party
Involving
Economic Future
Fundamentally
Gotten
Hopes
Narrower
Smaller
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This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Leadership
Presidency
Romney
Great Will America
Confuse
Executive
Experienced
Illusions
Seek
Mitt Romney
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As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Bustle
Forget
Hustle
Protected
Life Politics Always
Pray
Life Politics Me
Washington
Offer
Phase
Prepare
Thus
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And in terms of their crown jewel legislative achievement: who knew that when asked, 'will government impose a new federal mandate requiring middle class Americans to buy health insurance whether they can afford it or not?' The answer would be 'Yes we can!'
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Achievement
Middle Class
Afford
Crown
Health Insurance
Impose
Insurance
Jewel
Legislative
Mandate
Requiring
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We have built a genuine level of enthusiasm and goodwill with people throughout this district. People are really excited about the possibilities this election holds, not just for this district, but because of the message Alabama sent to the rest of the country.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Alabama
Election
Enthusiasm
Genuine
Goodwill
District
Holds
Possibilities
Sent
Throughout
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And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Hunger
Inequality
Lectures
Levels
Poverty
Flowery
Lies
Our People
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Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Artificial
Blinded
Columns
Denver
Glamour
Smoke
Stars
Begin
Halo
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We have a country to turn around. This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Leadership
Presidency
Romney
Great Will America
Confuse
Executive
Experienced
Illusions
Seek
Mitt
Mitt Romney
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Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Artist
Cleaning
Country
Fixing
People
Romney
Turnaround
Executive
Experienced
Fundamental
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Nominated
Resume
Task
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Well, one of the things a lot of Americans don't know, when Mitt Romney is nominated a few days from now, he will be the most experienced executive to be nominated for the presidency since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, who had run a university and had run the allied war effort. That's actually a big deal.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Running
War
Big Deal
Dwight
Effort
Presidency
Romney
University
Allied
Eisenhower
Executive
Experienced
Mitt Romney
Nominated
War Effort
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Sure, there's a chunk of African-Americans out there who associate the Republican Party with racism, frankly particularly in the Deep South. It's an unfair perception, but it exists. Over a period time, that perception will die away if Republicans are focusing on issues that happen to impact African-Americans.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Impact
Issues
Party
Perception
Racism
Republican Party
Unfair
Associate
Chunk
Deep South
Exists
Focusing
Frankly
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With respect to Barack Obama, let's face it; Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Respect
African American
Barack
Community
Economic
Iconic
Issues
President
Share
Vote
Obama
African-American Community
Barack Obama
Figure
Hold
Liberal
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Obviously, our most pressing need is subsistence for the most vulnerable victims of Katrina, but we should not overlook the fact that the victims of Katrina also include middle-class Americans who have saved and invested, but now face an economic crisis, .. They should be able to tap into their savings and meet this crisis without facing an unfair penalty.
Artur Davis / Former United States Representative
Able
Class
Saving
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