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A lot of very competent people sometimes make errors.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Competent
Errors
People
Sometimes
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I have always abhorred the word racism. I never use it.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Racism
Use
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I have always abhorred the word 'racism.' I never use it.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Racism
Word
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I admire and respect Bill Clinton. I think he was a great president.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Bills
President
Thinking
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Education is the great equalizer, and shouldn't be limited to the wealthiest few.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
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I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Mother
Problem
School
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Get yourself prepared, educationally and emotionally, and develop mental toughness. Don't ever give up.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Giving
Giving Up
Toughness
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In particular, the emerging call from our nation's evangelicals to protect God's creation is substantial
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
God's Creation
Particular
Protect
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In particular, the emerging call from our nation's evangelicals to protect God's creation is substantial.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Creation
Emerging
Particular
Protect
Evangelicals
Substantial
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Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Environmental
Balance
House
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The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Bottom
Bottom Line
Deserve
Five
Lines
Low Income
Minimum
Minimum Wage
American
Full
Working
Line
Million
Raise
Wage
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Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Environmental
Balance
Earth
Environmental Policy
Needs
Policy
Best Interests
Citizen
Interests
Pressing
Strike
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Rep. James Clyburn, the state's only black congressman -- controls 20 percent to 25 percent of the primary vote.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Black
States
Vote
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I'm heartened by the growing awareness of global warming among important communities and organizations in our nation.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Community
Global Warming
Important
Organization
Among
Communities
Global
Warming
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. I lost three times before I got elected. There's no limit. Stay in pursuit of your dreams.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Dream
Succeed
Trying
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An ability to compromise is important. That means stepping back and getting the ego out of the way in order to accomplish what you want to get done.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Ego
Important
Mean
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Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Environmental
Community
Environment
Impact
Protection
Communities
Families
Happen
Separate
Vacuum
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We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Children
Earth
Environment
Grandchildren
Healthy
Moral
Moral Responsibility
Protect
Responsibility
Sustainable
Ensure
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Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Government
Authority
Believe
Comprehensive
Drug Companies
Federal Government
Giving
Health Care
Health Care Reform
Reform
Health Government Believe
Democrats
Lower
Negotiate
Prices
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Last week in the Homeland Security Committee, Republicans were against port security; and today, one week after Democrats unveiled our Real Security Agenda, they're for it
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Agendas
Fog
Real
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Last week in the Homeland Security Committee, Republicans were against port security; and today, one week after Democrats unveiled our Real Security Agenda, they're for it.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Homeland
Homeland Security
Port
Committee
Democrats
Republicans
Port Security
Real Security
Unveiled
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We are hopeful about the opportunities ahead, and stand ready to join this President in an open and honest dialogue about improving the state of our union for all Americans not the select few.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Dialogue
Hopeful
Improving
Select
Ahead
All Americans
Join
Opportunities
Union
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I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Graduation
Useful
Funds
Graduated
No Problems
Private
Private Schools
Schools
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You ought not be afraid of nuclear, but respectful of it. Yes, it has dangers, but it also has benefits. If not for nuclear, much of the medicine that's saving lives today would not be in existence.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Danger
Respectful
Today
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Democrats are committed to mapping a new direction in Iraq, and we will work with the President and the new Defense Secretary to ensure that the will of the American people guides our future actions.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Committed
Defense
Guides
Mapping
Secretary
Future Work People
Actions
American People
Democrats
Direction
Ensure
New Direction
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Two new reports indicate that, under Bush, the Army is overstretched and under enormous strain. The National Guard and reserves have been weakened and we are experiencing numerous recruiting problems.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Army
Enormous
National Guard
Reports
Reserves
Strain
Bush
Experiencing
Guard
Indicate
National
Numerous
Problems
Recruiting
Weakened
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We have stabilized our economy. We took over a very sick economy, and we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. We have stopped the hemorrhaging. In fact, we had 140,000 job growth last month. And that's what I call progress.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Job Growth
Sick
Month
Stabilized
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Democrats are fighting for a new direction that includes protecting Social Security as well as making healthcare affordable, bringing down the high cost of gasoline, and making higher education more accessible for all Americans.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Affordable
Cost
Fighting
Gasoline
Healthcare
Higher
Higher Education
Social Security
Accessible
All Americans
Bringing
Democrats
Direction
New Direction
Protecting
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Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this Administration to better define that mission and a realistic expectation of success in Iraq.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Administration
Effort
Expectations
Extraordinary
Iraq
Realistic
Troops
Success Work Better
Define
Democrats
Expectation
Fulfill
Mission
This Administration
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I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterdays election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
War
Believe
Iraq
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I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterday's election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Administration
Clear
Election
Iraq
Loud
President
Secretary
Yesterday
American People
Bush
Bush Administration
War Time Believe
Current
Direction
Disapprove
Dumping
Wasted
No Time
Result
Rumsfeld
Spoke
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The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Add
Children
Congress
Cutting
Math
Math And Science
Party
Aide
Billion
Student
Fully
Heeded
Leaders
Refusing
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The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don't want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Clear
Congress
Loud
November
President
Security
Social Security
Republicans
Promised
Repeatedly
Revisit
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Has he paid his dues? Is he black enough? John Lewis and I were out there marching and organizing sit-ins back in the '60s so that his children and my children would not have to do it. We would have been failures if had to do the same things we did.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Black
Children
Enough
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Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans' prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Access
Administration
Colossal
Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceutical Companies
Unprecedented
Wake Up
Enjoying
Republicans
Health Insurance
Insurance
Prescription
Profits
Seniors
This Administration
Wake
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A question I often get is, "How do you maintain your sanity with so much happening all around you?" I think I developed a certain mental toughness that is required in the business. You have to have a thick skin and a brass bottom, because you're going to kicked a lot.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Sanity
Skins
Thinking
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But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nations economic viability.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Energy
Environmental Health
Oil
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But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Environmental
Health
Benefits
Dependence
Developing
Economic
Emissions
Energy
Energy Sources
Foreign Oil
National Security
Oil
Reducing
Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy Sources
Security
Alternative
Beyond
Nation
Enhance
Harmful
Improve
Personal
Renewable
Sources
Viability
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Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need.
Jim Clyburn / U.s. Representative
Adopted
Alternatives
Assistance
Clean
Clean Energy
Eastern
Independent
Oil
Program
Rural America
Ten
Years
Democrats
Laid
Middle Eastern
Provides
Rural
Ten Years
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