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I take on daunting tasks.
Elizabeth Emken / Politician
Daunting
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My son is a blessing in every way.
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Blessing
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Human suffering is not a competitive sport.
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Human Suffering
Competitive
Sport
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My two careers have been very service-oriented.
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Careers
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I think, of course, all senate races are national races.
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Senate
Races
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I'm no fan of what I've seen health insurance companies do.
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Insurance Companies
Health Health Insurance Insurance
Health Insurance
Insurance
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I'm not a millionaire, a billionaire, a CEO, or a movie star.
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Billionaire
Ceo
Millionaire
Movie Star
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You know what they want in the Central Valley? They want water.
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Valley
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The genetics of autism are real, but there are also environmental triggers.
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Environmental
Autism
Genetics
Triggers
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I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.
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Good Ideas
Odds
Sensible
Good Great Law
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I believe both parties are sending the wrong kind of people to Washington, D.C.
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Believe People I Believe
Both Parties
Parties
Sending
Wrong Kind
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I believe reduced spending, lower taxation, and economic growth go hand-in-hand.
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Economic Growth
Hand In Hand
Taxation
Believe I Believe Growth
Growth Believe I Believe
Reduced
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Feinstein doesn't interact with the people at all, and I think it breeds cynicism.
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Breeds
Interact
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My son has autism, and I founded the government relations department at Autism Speaks.
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Autism
Department
Son
Relations
Speaks
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If we foster business growth and create opportunities, then our economy will again thrive.
Elizabeth Emken / Politician
Economy
Growth
Thrive
Business Growth Will
Foster
Opportunities
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What has Dianne Feinstein done... I'll put my legislative background up against hers any day.
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Hers
Legislative
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I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.
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Democrat
Don't Care
Establishment
Solver
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Anyone that tells you what does or what doesn't cause autism is simply not basing that on facts.
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Autism
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I think we need to have more women in the Republican Party talking about what it is we're trying to do for families.
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Republican Party
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I think we need a vibrant guest worker program. If we have one, we're going to stop having a lot of issues at the border.
Elizabeth Emken / Politician
Worker
Border
Guest
Vibrant
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The way our federal agencies are funded, the way the authorizing of these programs are done, I think needs to be completely revamped.
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Agencies
Programs
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We have bloated, out-of-control, and unresponsive government agencies that need to be reined in and focused by Congress to deliver results.
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Government Agencies
Agencies
Bloated
Deliver
Out-Of-Control
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What makes autism different is the history of neglect into the disorder. It's remained such a mystery that science has been very slow to address it.
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Autism
Disorder
Neglect
Address
Remained
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We all know Sen. Feinstein is out of touch, but just to make it worse, by not embracing today's technology, she isn't even connected. Out of touch and disconnected.
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Disconnected
Embracing
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What's more difficult than knowing there's an effective treatment for your children, but you can't afford to offer it to them because it's not covered by insurance?
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Covered
Treatment
Afford
Effective
Insurance
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Ironically, if you look at Dianne Feinstein's profile and you look at my profile, I'm the 99 percent. Dianne Feinstein's the one percent. She appeals to one percent.
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Appeals
Profile
Ironically
One Percent
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In California, we've had a series of millionaires and billionaires and CEOs and movie stars. We need to take a hard look at how we define legitimate and credible candidates.
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California
Candidates
Credible
Series
Stars
Billionaires
Ceos
Define
Hard Look
Legitimate
Millionaires
Movie Stars
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When you look at a Congress that has an 84 percent disapproval rating, that means that for the most part, the people of this country, and certainly California, are looking for new leadership.
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Leadership
California
Congress
Country
Disapproval
Percent
Rating
Look People New
Certainly
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The federal government secures the border; Californians decide how we want to treat our population. I think we need a vibrant guest worker program. If we have one, we're going to stop having a lot of issues at the border.
Elizabeth Emken / Politician
Californians
Federal Government
Population
Program
Worker
Border
Guest
Vibrant
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I appeal to everyone who understands what it is to have kids in school, have a mortgage, to work for a living; to have someone in their family or in their life who is less-abled and who is going to need help from the government.
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Mortgage
Life Family Work
Appeal
Understands
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In California, for so long now, our families have been struggling in this economic environment, and Dianne Feinstein, been in office nearly half a century, is out of touch of what women and families are going through in California.
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California
Environment
Half
Office
Touch
Nearly
Struggling
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Part of the problem you have is that you don't have a dialogue between elected officials and their constituents. They've built these barricades, these barriers around themselves and tried to avoid interaction with their constituents.
Elizabeth Emken / Politician
Barriers
Dialogue
Elected Officials
Interaction
Officials
Avoid
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The position of Autism Speaks has been for quite awhile that we need to find out what's happening. We know there's a genetic component, and there's an environmental trigger, and until we get to the bottom of what's happening, no one knows what causes autism.
Elizabeth Emken / Politician
Environmental
Autism
Causes
Awhile
Component
Speaks
Trigger
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I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for $5 million or $10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I'm rejecting that premise.
Elizabeth Emken / Politician
Career Politicians
Checks
Credible
Higher
Office
Rejecting
Definition
Politicians
Million
Parachute
Premise
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