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Iran is nothing but trouble, and always has been that.
Jay Rockefeller / United States Senator
Has Beens
Iran
Trouble
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We will push through health care reform regardless of the views of the American people.
Jay Rockefeller / United States Senator
People
Reform
Views
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There is a difference between being a political force, or a political apparent force or a potential force, and between a real discourse or a real argument.
Jay Rockefeller / United States Senator
Argument
Political
Real
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Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress.
Jay Rockefeller / United States Senator
Accountability
Branches
People
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One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world.
Jay Rockefeller / United States Senator
Country
Invasion
Iraq
Remains
Stability
Troops
Years
Extremely
Led
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Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country.
Jay Rockefeller / United States Senator
Allowing
Committed
Country
International
International Community
Iraq
Safety
Stability
Bringing
Demonstrate
Iraqis
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What is private and what is discussed behind closed doors, you do not have to be instructed at the age of fifty or sixty or forty or whatever to not talk about it outside.
Jay Rockefeller / United States Senator
Age
Forty
Sixty
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I don't think so, and that's partly the problem of not checking cargo, and it's partly the problem of biological weapons, which nobody has figured out really what to do about yet.
Jay Rockefeller / United States Senator
Problem
Thinking
Weapons
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Everybody is a football senator for a while, but it is a much shorter season and there are not that many teams that are on top, and baseball is just built into the American psyche.
Jay Rockefeller / United States Senator
Baseball
Football
Team
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The Republicans, in the various arguments, repeat exactly the same phrases one after another, with no sense of embarrassment, no sense of shame, no sense of intellectual integrity.
Jay Rockefeller / United States Senator
Argument
Integrity
Intellectual
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The president's economic plan doesn't do enough to create new jobs and that has to be a national priority. While there are some signs the economy is improving, it is not translating into jobs.
Jay Rockefeller / United States Senator
Improving
New Jobs
Plan
Signs
Translating
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The reason I love being a senator is that I can have whatever thoughts I have, say whatever I want about any subject at any time, and that is a wonderful feeling of freedom, and I cherish that.
Jay Rockefeller / United States Senator
Feelings
Love Is
Wonderful
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There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years, and he could have it earlier.
Jay Rockefeller / United States Senator
Mass Destruction
Wmd
Years
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We were told by the president that we had no alternative but to go into Iraq because of the threat that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction posed, but to date, these weapons have not been found.
Jay Rockefeller / United States Senator
Destruction
Hussein
Mass
Mass Destruction
Saddam
Weapons
Alternative
Date
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Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.
Jay Rockefeller / United States Senator
Feels
Hard Questions
Iran
Mistake
Same Mistakes
Afterwards
Mistakes
Pat
Roberts
Strongly
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We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created.
Jay Rockefeller / United States Senator
War
Civil War
Dilemma
Instability
Iraq
Loved Ones
Stability
Tyrants
Rise
Civil
Otherwise
Sending
Tyrant
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One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to think in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years.
Jay Rockefeller / United States Senator
America
Asia
East
Middle East
Short Term
Thinking
Years
Centuries
Parts
Relatively
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Once you arrive at an interpretation which you are comfortable in giving, no matter how specious it might be, and you are comfortable doing it, you stay there, you just stay there, and the facts are not going to change you.
Jay Rockefeller / United States Senator
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It would be a big favor to political discourse; to our ability to do our work here in Congress; and to the American people, to be able to talk with each other and have some faith in their government and, more importantly, in their future.
Jay Rockefeller / United States Senator
Government
People
Political
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For the past three years, the Senate intelligence committee has avoided carrying out its oversight of our nation's intelligence programs whenever the White House becomes uncomfortable with the questions being asked. The very independence of this committee is called into question.
Jay Rockefeller / United States Senator
Past
White
Years
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Saddam's existing biological and chemical weapons capabilities pose a very real threat to America, now. Saddam has used chemical weapons before, both against Iraq's enemies and against his own people. He is working to develop delivery systems like missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles that could bring these deadly weapons against U.S. forces and U.S. facilities in the Middle East.
Jay Rockefeller / United States Senator
Mass Destruction
Real
Wmd
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