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Americans who may be going to the largest embassy we've ever had.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Embassy
Largest
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I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Friendship
Glasses
Russia
Glass
Raise
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We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Accountability
Nuclear
Perfect
Weapons
Biological
Chemical
Worldwide
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We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Affair
Firsts
Responsibility
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I have no salary from the Lugar Center. Essentially, the moneys we have received has been from foundations.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Salary
Foundations
Received
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When I was a candidate for the Republican nomination for president back in 1995, 1996, I advocated the fair tax.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Candidate
Nomination
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I think there is a commitment on the part of the White House to racial justice in this country, and no ambiguity.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Commitment
Country
Thinking
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It's very unlikely that we're going to send more troops to Iraq. We are going to have to train the Iraqis faster and harder.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Faster
Harder
Troops
Unlikely
Iraqis
Send
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There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Commit
Foreign Policy
Policy
Shortcuts
Victory
Years
Foreign
Painstaking
Slow
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As a practical matter, every immigrant needs to master English to be a full participating citizen and to have full economic opportunity.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Opportunity
Citizens
Needs
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By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Opportunity
Agriculture
Cash
Collecting
Ethanol
Produce
Use
Agricultural
Crop
Presented
Wastes
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Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Environmental
Independence
Benefits
Country
Energy Independence
Ethanol
Fuel
Keys
Tremendous
Component
Performance
Premier
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I compliment President Obama on having these summits each year in Washington in which people have talked about ridding the world of materials of mass destruction.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Compliment
Destruction
Mass
Mass Destruction
President Obama
Each Year
Talked
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If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Helpful
If I Could
Importance
Odds
Reading
Thoughtful
Hint
Hoping
Note
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Very rarely does food enhance the conversation. If the food is really good, there'll be much less conversation because you'd be concentrating too much on the food.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Concentrating
Conversation
Enhance
Rarely
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It is unfortunate that there is not a government in Iraq that has been able to unify the Shiites and the Sunnis sufficiently. They are not currently fighting together.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Currently
Sufficiently
Unify
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We believe - most polls indicate - a lack of support, a lack of confidence in the ability of the Congress to work. That is disturbing in terms of our general democracy.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Disturbing
Polls
Indicate
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That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Children
Critical
Extraordinary
Meals
Poverty
Responsibility
School
School Board
Board
Member
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The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the 24 Iraqis or however many others they appoint, can govern the country.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Council
Appoint
Disarm
Frame
Govern
However
Iraqis
Time Frame
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The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Conflict
Disease
Humanity
Poverty
Responsibility
United States
Tremendous
Feed
Conferred
Cure
Lift
Status
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Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Ambiguous
Collapse
Communist
Despite
Fate
People
Russia
Perhaps
Russian People
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Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Imagination
Eye
Grandchildren
Envision
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Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Admission
Needed
Best Opportunity World
Colleges
Declining
Importantly
Introduce
Overseas
Revenues
Universities
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I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Opportunity
Concepts
Convinced
Enterprise
Free Enterprise
Law
Majority
Moral
Moral Responsibility
Responsibility
Rule Of Law
American People
Foster
Rule
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There should be a response, clearly, if there was meddling. And it does appear that there was some, and therefore, we perhaps should wait for our own investigation by Mr. Mueller to continue and to come to a conclusion before we begin to take steps regarding the Russians.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Conclusion
Investigation
Meddling
Response
Steps
Appear
Russians
Regarding
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Bilateral talks would have to achieve cessation of the missile work by the North Koreans. And it would have to include, as did the Iranian deal, the International Atomic Energy Agency or some other group coming in to assess that and to enforce that to give information about it internationally.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Agency
Atomic Energy
Iranian
Assess
Atomic
Bilateral
Cessation
Enforce
Include
Internationally
Missile
Talks
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The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Navy
Ran
Senior
Senior Year
Serving
Fortunately
Ironically
Junior
Political Career
Promising
Returned
Runner
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Of other countries, to impose economic sanctions, it'd really begin to dry up the enormous amount of money coming into North Korea, a lot of it from China - from Chinese banks - whereas, if we sanction the Chinese banks, there could be friction with China. But this is something we're going to have to face.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Amount
China
Dry
Economic
Enormous
Friction
North Korea
Other Countries
Begin
Banks
Coming
Countries
Impose
North
Sanction
Whereas
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Secretary Perry became the 19th secretary of defense and the first enlisted man to serve in that role. He had time in the highest ranks of the Pentagon and was instrumental in the dismantlement of the nuclear warheads in the United States and Russia. Throughout his career, he has devoted himself to protecting the interests of the nation.
Richard Lugar / Former Member Of The United States Senate
Defense
Devoted
Enlisted
Nuclear
Pentagon
Russia
Secretary
Instrumental
Interests
Nuclear Warheads
Perry
Protecting
Ranks
Serve
Throughout
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