Earl Blumenauer

Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting. Earl Blumenauer Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning [...]

David Blunkett

I said it’s impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don’t have any incentives for people to actually come up front and register, and make themselves available, and secondly you have no means of tracking them. David Blunkett And we think that our citizens and yours would [...]

Kathleen Blanco

Poverty is everyone’s problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty. Kathleen Blanco The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. [...]

Richard Parks Bland

It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is. Richard Parks Bland Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere [...]

Lindy Boggs

Well, Hale was one of the first people who suggested to President Johnson that there should be a commission. Lindy Boggs And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be [...]

Tim Bishop

We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated. Tim Bishop In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island. Tim Bishop Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the [...]

Lin Biao

One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don’t. Lin Biao Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the ‘cities of the world’, then Asia, Africa and Latin [...]

Kenneth Blackwell

They know, the courts know, the people know that they have no way of changing the results as it affects them. Kenneth Blackwell We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio. Kenneth Blackwell And I’m very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election. Kenneth Blackwell [...]

Leon Blum

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought. Leon Blum When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again. Leon Blum Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a [...]

Edward Blake

I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention. Edward Blake The accumulation of personal wealth and the extension of commercial transactions have developed a great and lamentable increase in certain classes of crimes, while the improvements in transport have largely facilitated the escape of fugitive criminals. Edward Blake As far as I [...]

Judy Biggert

Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular. Judy Biggert The Pledge of Allegiance is an important expression of our shared values, and it should be preserved in its current form. I fully support the [...]

Georges Bidault

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. Georges Bidault  

Joe Biden

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes. Joe Biden Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel? Joe Biden Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart. Joe Biden The Middle East is hopeful. There’s hope there. Joe [...]

Aneurin Bevan

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. Aneurin Bevan Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born. Aneurin Bevan I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine. Aneurin [...]

William Berkeley

If they had killed by father and my mother and all my friends, yet if they had come to treat of peace, they ought to have gone in peace. William Berkeley

Marion Berry

If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate. Marion Berry People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn’t break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then? Marion Berry I promise you a police car on every sidewalk. [...]

Philip E. Berger

The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law. Philip E. Berger My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly. Philip E. Berger  

Howard Berman

Since we enacted the PATRIOT Act almost three years ago, there has been tremendous public debate about its breadth and implications on due process and privacy. Howard Berman Iran is central to our foreign policy in the Middle East, a major player in global energy markets, and a key country in terms of our interaction [...]

Lloyd Bentsen

Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy. Lloyd Bentsen I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn’t know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and [...]

Shelley Berkley

I cannot understand for the life of me why DOE is going forward with this licensing procedure when we do not know whether or not the scientific documentation upon which you are basing your decisions is, in fact, flawed. Shelley Berkley Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would [...]

Phil Berger

It’s no fun to have HIV even though it’s viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system. Phil Berger

Tony Benn

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters. Tony Benn I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias. Tony Benn The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin’s Russia: it’s like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition [...]

Charles Bent

Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees. Charles Bent The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God. Charles Bent If every call to Christ and His [...]

Judah Philip Benjamin

It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort… than a prarie fire by a gardener’s watering pot. Judah Philip Benjamin

Craig Benson

So you get kind of addicted to a revenue stream, and then all of a sudden it goes away, now the problem is worse than it was before. Craig Benson The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business [...]

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