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Human beings crave freedom at their core.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Freedom
Core
Crave
Human Beings
Humans
Beings
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You know the bark is worse than the bite in D.C.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Bark
Bite
Worse
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I loved being in the Senate. That was a wonderful experience.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Senate
Wonderful
Wonderful Experience
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If you double count some votes, that makes other votes disenfranchised.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Disenfranchised
Ifs
Vote
Count
Double
Votes
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I can honestly say that being a United States senator has been the honor of my life.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Honestly
Honor
United States
Senator
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The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Appropriation
Committees
Senate
Spending
Committee
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I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Believe
Community
Country
Voting
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Oftentimes, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Achieve
Arrogant
Prestige
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If you find someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time that is your friend not your enemy.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Agree
Enemy
Percent
Time Your Find
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Often times, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Arrogant
Prestige
Achieves
More Power
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In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington: Today it is 1 in 4.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Dollars
Political
Today
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Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Fields
Senators
Troops
Senator
Inexcusable
Reprehensible
Undermine
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Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Medical
Democrat
Doctors
Issues
Lawyer
Liability
Patient
Reform
Versus
Doctor
Issue
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In Las Vegas, people know that the odds are stacked against them. On Wall Street, they manipulate the odds while you are playing the game.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Business
Vegas
Wall
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Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Chicago
Competition
Miami
Oakland
San Francisco
Compete
Fort
San
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The people of Iraq realize that a stable, successful, democratic Iraq can only come about if average Iraqis are willing to sacrifice to build it.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Average
Sacrifice
Successful
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The possibility of endangering Nevadans will never happen under my watch. I will do everything I can to protect the safety and welfare of our citizens.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Citizens
Safety
Watches
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Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should be... a goal of reporters today.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Department
Goal
Judicial
Judicial System
Justice
Reporters
Seeking
Today
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For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Encouragement
America
Entrepreneurship
Innovation
Leader
Prosperous
Economic Future
Policies
Pro-Growth
Remain
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The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to actually go out and do what it takes to get a job.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Jobs
Easier
Generous
People
Unemployment
Job
Actually
People More Go
Benefit
Less
Stay
Incentive
Insurance
Takes
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It is irresponsible to set an arbitrary cap on how much therapy a Medicare beneficiary can receive. It ignores the health needs of our senior population - especially the oldest and sickest.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Needs
Population
Senior
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The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Belief
Danger
Democracy
Enslavement
Liberty
Ordinary
People
President
Tyranny
Voting
Extreme
Bush
Choose
Iraqis
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Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Crime
Lifting
Lifting Weights
Skills
Thinking
Weights
Skill
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The election in Iraq clearly demonstrates that Iraqi people are like people everywhere. They desire to create a future in an environment that is safe and allows them to reach their full potential as human beings, whatever that potential may be.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Future
Desire
Election
Environment
Full Potential
Human Beings
Iraq
People
Safe
Everywhere
Beings
Clearly
Full
Create
Whatever
Iraqi People
Reach
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Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Administration
Corruption
Dollars
Fraud
Hype
Investigation
Involved
Nations
Oil
Program
United
United Nations
American
American Taxpayer
Cooperate
Extent
Fully
Grasp
Taxpayer
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In 1998 Harry Reid and I had a very close race. It was less than a tenth of a percentage point. We had a reasonable recount. There were a lot of things that I could have pursued at the time, but I just felt that at the time that I should have, you know, conceded the race.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Conceded
Percentages
Pursued
Race
Reasonable
Should Have
Less
Close
Harry
Harry Reid
Percentage
Recount
Reid
Tenth
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Too many members of Congress are too involved in grabbing what they can for their states or districts without enough emphasis on overall fiscal restraint for the sake of the nation as a whole. We need a new era of fiscal sanity. I am not willing to subject my children and grandchildren to the level of debt that Congress has created.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Children
Debt
Levels
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There's too many people that paint with a broad brush that we're all corrupt, we're all amoral. … And having these kinds of things happen, whether it's a Republican or Democratic senator — we certainly have had plenty of Democratic scandals in the past — we need people who are in office who will hold themselves to a little higher standard.
John Ensign / Former United States Senator
Office
Past
People
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