Quotes by Ed Markey - Page 1

Cigars are no safe alternative act.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Alternatives
Safe
Smoking
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Four
Important
Language
Letters
Four-Letter
Word
The Most Important
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America is running a fever, but there are no emergency rooms.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Nature
Running
Science
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
War
Engagement
Terrorism
Torture
Engage
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Analysis
Data
Matter
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Analysis
Data
Scientific
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The beauty of daylight-saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Daylight
Feels
Saving
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Car
Automobile
Efficient
Fuel
Months
Six
Six Months
Waiting
Wait
Overseas
Purchase
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I have no confidence whatsoever in BP. I think that they do not know what they are doing.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
No Confidence
Oil Spill
Thinking
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Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Broke
Cia
Military
Syria
United States Military
Relations
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Education
Opportunity
Future
Investment
Ladders
Education Future Investment
Also
Only
Ladder
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We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Brighter
Brighter Future
Loved Ones
Vote
Life Future Hope
Loved
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Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Doe
General Motors
Hybrid
Last Year
Lasts
Years
General
Ford
Motors
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The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Equal
Past
School
Today
Arguably
Schools
Segregated
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Detroit
Hydrogen
Vehicle
Years
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
New York
Cigarette
Fire
Historic
Last Year
Moving
Safety
Standard
Passed
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Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Depends
Economy
Educational
World
World Stage
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The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Chance
Christian
Lions
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The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Lions
Opec
Better Chance
Christians
Consumer
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The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Politics
Constitution
Years
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My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of marathon runners, onlookers, city officials and others affected by this senseless tragedy.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Cities
Prayer
Tragedy
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If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Enemy
Fighting
Inhumane
Trying
Beheld
Techniques
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In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Groups
Human Rights
President
Rights
Uzbekistan
Corrupt
Human Human Rights Rights
Hundreds
Massacre
Recently
Regime
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That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Hands
Pockets
President
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That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Consumers
American Consumers
Holding
Pocket
Premise
Saudi
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Education
Future
Children
Our Future
Percent
Population
Child
Afford
Education Future Children
Although
Any
Only
Cannot
Provide
We Cannot
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First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Jobs
Community
Needs
Terrorist
Tools
Attack
Communities
Provide
Responders
Terrorist Attack
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People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Gas
Legs
Oil
People
Pockets
Shaking
Tipping
Upside Down
Money People Feel
Holding
Pump
Upside
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The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Leadership
Congress
Economy
Five
Fuel
Fuel Economy
Increase
President
President Bush
Problem
Standards
Years
Attempts
Bush
Dramatically
Last
Resisted
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The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Dream
Opportunity
Children
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The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Access
Color
Decision
Equal
Equal Opportunity
Pursue
Quality Education
Unequivocal
Skin
Promised
Regardless
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Causes
Common Knowledge
Fire
Smoking
Considered
Cigarettes
Fatal
Fires
Leading
Leading Cause
Preventable
Widely
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We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Materials
Seeking
Stolen
Al
Attack
Devastating
Hundreds
Launch
Qaeda
Radioactive
Sources
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The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Abuse
Conscience
Degrading
Humiliating
Photograph
Reports
Shock
Treatment
Acts
Photographs
Sexual
Iraqi
Prisoners
Subjected
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We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Children
Cigarette
Construction
Cost
Couple
Fire
Innocent
Losing
Pennies
Risk
Simple
Tolerate
Child
Longer
Making
Putting
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The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Assault
Congress
Country
Factories
Fields
Party
Protection
Republican Party
Rights
All-Out
Work People Country
Bringing
Floor
Work Country People
Offices
Onto
Out Here
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Drilling in the Refuge is completely unnecessary when we could improve the average fuel economy of cars, minivans and SUV's by just 3 miles a gallon and save more oil within 10 years than we could ever produce from the Arctic Refuge.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Average
Oil
Years
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Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Technology
Comfort
Economy
Engineering
Fuel
Fuel Economy
Miles
Mit
Safety
School
Standards
Across
Compromising
Existing
Gallon
Per
Schools
Vehicles
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However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
Ed Markey / United States Senator
Celebrate
Commitment
Demise
Historical
Racism
Reality
Ahead
Board
Certainly
Critically
Examine
However
Official
Reaffirm
Recognize
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