Quotes by John Edwards - Page 1

I didn't get to the Senate by accident.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Senate
Accident
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I have grown up in the bright light of America.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Bright
Grown
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I think an Edwards-Kerry ticket would be powerful.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Ticket
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I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
April
Died
Son
Wade
Slapped
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I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
All My Life
Life Champion My Life
For The People
Fought
Regular
Regular People
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I'm their sole parent, and there is nothing more important than being the best father I can be.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Being The Best
Parent
Sole
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The president of the United States actually has to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Gum
Chew
Same Time
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If you want to beat me up, feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Beaten
Myself Me Free
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I'd say if you live in the United States of America and you vote for George Bush, you've lost your mind.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
United States Of America
Vote
Bush
George
George Bush
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I am Quinn's father. I will do everything in my power to provide her with the love and support she deserves.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Deserves
Provide
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America's families will be safer in a world where we're strong, where we're engaged, but where we're respected.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Engaged
World Will America
World America Will
Safer
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There's a lot of America that's Christian. I would not describe us, though, on the whole, as a Christian nation.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Christian Nation
Describe
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I'm in love with one woman. I've been in love with one woman for 31 years. She is the finest human being I have ever known.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Finest
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The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Being Done
Cents
Work Men Women
Women Are
Dollar
Equivalent
Work Women Men
Unacceptable
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I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Anyway
Political Career
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I believe that presidential candidates actually have a responsibility to point out substantive differences: to point out perspectives that are different.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Candidates
Differences
Presidential
Believe I Believe Responsibility
Perspectives
Substantive
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I was wrong to vote for this war. Unfortunately, I'll have to live with that forever. And the lesson I learned from it is to put more faith in my own judgment.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Judgment
Vote
Unfortunately
Lesson
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I think that America is a nation of faith. I do believe that. Certainly by way of heritage - there's a powerful Christian thread through all of American history.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
American History
Heritage
Powerful
Thread
Certainly
Nation
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My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system. And to suggest that I can somehow separate and divorce that from the rest of me is not possible.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Divorce
Rest
Informs
Somehow
Suggest
Value
Value System
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I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Appropriate
Belief
Circumstances
Any Circumstances
Rest
Impose
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The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided?
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Divided
Country America More
Washington
Unite
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If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
John Kerry
Christopher
John
Reeve
Wheelchair
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There's no question that I've done wrong. I take full responsibility for having done wrong. I will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that I've caused to others. But I did not break the law.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Break
Done
Harm
Pain
Regret
Responsibility
Caused
Did
Full
Wrong
Having
My Life
No Question
Question
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In 2006, 2 years ago, I made a very serious mistake. A mistake that I am responsible for and no one else. In 2006, I told Elizabeth about the mistake, asked her for her forgiveness, asked God for his forgiveness.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Forgiveness
Mistake
Serious
Years Ago
Asked
Elizabeth
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In America we believe that every child, no matter where they live, who their family is, or what the color of their skin, is entitled to as good an education as the richest parent in America can give to their children.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Entitled
Parent
Education Family Good
Richest
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Faith is not a political strategy and should not be a political strategy. If it is being used as a tool to garner votes, to convince people they should support one political party or the other, I think that is a huge mistake.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Convince
Huge
Mistake
Party
Strategy
Support
Being Used
Garner
Political Party
Votes
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The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Ceo
Dollars
Facts
Financial
Investigation
Millions
Officials
Paid
Providing
Enemies
False
Foreign
Millions Of Dollars
Sworn
Vice
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There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Adoption
Benefits
Couple
Deserve
Entitled
Gay
Immigration
Judgment
Partnership
Work Respect Done
Fairly
Couples
Gays
Lesbian
Treat
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I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Carolina
Defeated
Helm
North Carolina
Senator
Good Thing
Incumbent
Instead
Machine
North
Result
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I went from being a senator, a young senator, to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential candidate, and becoming a national public figure. All of which fed a self-focus, an egotism, a narcissism that leads you to believe that you can do whatever you want.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Running
Becoming
Egotism
Narcissism
President
Vice President
Young
Considered
Candidate
Senator
Public
Whatever
Fed
Figure
Leads
National
Public Figure
Vice
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We ought to follow through on an idea that was first proposed by President Clinton to allow people over the age of 55 who are not eligible for Medicare into the Medicare system, at cost, and below cost for those who can't afford it. That takes care of a significant number of the people who don't have health insurance.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Clinton
Cost
Follow Through
Medicare
Ought
President Clinton
Significant
Afford
Below
Eligible
Health Insurance
Insurance
Proposed
Significant Number
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South Carolina, as a matter of compromise, displays the Confederate flag on a flagpole in front of the state capitol. Because I grew up in the South and believe that the Confederate flag is a very divisive symbol, I have stated publicly a number of times that I believe that South Carolina should remove the flag from the state capitol grounds.
John Edwards / Former U.s. Senator
Capitol
Carolina
Compromise
Confederate
Remove
South
South Carolina
Believe I Believe Matter
Divisive
Number
Flag
Front
Grounds
Publicly
Stated
Symbol
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