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When history calls, history calls.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
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Ive never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Debate
Fighting
Relish
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I've never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Debate
Relish
Backed
Fight
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In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Achieve
Common
Common Good
Diverse
Results
Finding
Ground
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Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Respect
Discrimination
Issues
Judging
Openness
Years
Judge
Possesses
Roberts
Wage
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a big tent party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Choices
Party
Pro Life
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In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Environmental
Friendly
Thinking
Thrive
Unimaginable
Manner
Operate
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My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Nowhere
Concept
Essential
Legitimate
Limited
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Decades
Pro Life
Advocate
Republicans
Pro-Choice
Staunch
Tent
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Bipartisanship
Discourse
Honorable
Political
Public Service
Pursuit
Today
Two
Public
Often
Overshadowed
Service
Truths
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I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Defense
Fiscal Responsibility
Individual Freedom
Liberty
Limited Government
National Defense
Responsibility
Strong
Thinking
Traditional
Freedom Government Responsibility
Represent
Fiscal
Strong National Defense
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Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Cancer
Diagnosis
Late
Long
Long Term
Painless
Serious
Simple
Deaths
Measures
Preventive
Result
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The American spirit is stronger than stone and mortar, tougher than steel and glass, and more enduring than any pain or suffering that can be inflicted on our national conscience.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Glasses
Pain
Suffering
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The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Accommodate
Senate
Designed
Include
Institution
Minority
United States Senate
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What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people who entrusted me to be their voice and their champion.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Chance
Champion
Motivated
People
Produce
Public Service
Results
Two
Voice
Life Chance Myself
Nearly
Public
Dedicate
Entrusted
Service
Two-Thirds
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Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Country
Drug
Joining
Mean
Sell
Foster
Indeed
Industrialized
Manufacturers
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At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Leadership
Determination
Extraordinary
President
Resolve
Soil
States
Thrust
United States
Unprecedented
Worst
Attack
Displayed
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One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
America
Blue
Color
Difficulty
Divided
Electorate
Just One
Lawmakers
Representing
Senate
Increasingly
Intended
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What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Country
People
Public Service
Purpose
Senate
States
Thinking
Thinking About You
United States
Certainly
Represent
Public
For The People
Problems
Service
United States Senate
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You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Senate is predicated and based on consensus building. That was certainly the vision of the founding fathers.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Consensus
Disagree
Founding
Problem
Senate
Solve
States
Talking
United States
Vision
Based
Certainly
Fathers
Founding Fathers
United States Senate
Whom
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It is time that we provide clarity for our seniors, informing them of the services available that will lower the costs of their prescription drugs and strengthen the overall integrity of the Medicare entitlement.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Available
Clarity
Entitlement
Informing
Integrity
Medicare
Prescription Drugs
Lower
Overall
Prescription
Provide
Seniors
Services
Strengthen
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Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Finance
Advantage
Campaign Finance
Campaigns
Election
Groups
Insidious
Purpose
Sole
Taken
Campaign
Existing
Unfortunately
Influencing
Loophole
Sole Purpose
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We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Accelerate
Breathtaking
Discrimination
Fields
Genetics
Needs
Pace
Prevention
Progress
Treatment
Advances
Basis
Constitute
Ensure
Field
Recognized
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You can't have the legislative and executive branch working in a parallel universe...the partisanship that has gripped Washington has prevented us from dealing with the issues that this country needs to grapple with to determine its future.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Country
Issues
Needs
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I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Fourth
Honored
Maine
Past
People
Public Office
Senate
Term
Years
Nearly
Incredibly
Seek
United States Senate
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When my first husband died, what I tried to do is to sort of, you know, try to bring some rationale to the circumstance and think about worse circumstances, and also open the door to what other women experienced when all of a sudden they were left alone. And particularly if they had children.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Died
Rationale
Circumstance
Door
Experienced
Sudden
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Joining the Bipartisan Policy Center is a natural extension of my efforts to achieve results throughout my tenure in Congress, and it provides an ideal means for developing strategies that can garner the broad support necessary to achieve real solutions to the challenges confronting our nation.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Bipartisan
Confronting
Developing
Joining
Solutions
Tenure
Broad
Center
Efforts
Extension
Garner
Ideal
Strategies
Throughout
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What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night wed have what youd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Running
Morning
Monday
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What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Jet
Machinery
Monday
Monday Night
Senate
Smell
Thursday
Tuesday
Vote
Committee
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I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.
Olympia Snowe / Former United States Senator
Government
America
Bickering
Challenges
Congress
Embarrassed
Fed Up
Inactivity
Reconstruction
Refusal
Study
Worst
According
Facing
Fed
Partisan
Polarized
Universally
Vital
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