Tom Allen Quotes

• Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean’s surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.

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• Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity.

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• While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

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  Tags in Political, Relish, Forms, Warm

• What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.

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• We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.

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• Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research.

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• Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become any type of human cell and could provide new treatments for many illnesses.

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• They don’t have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

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• These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things.

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• The Republicans in the House and the Bush administration are bankrupting this country.

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• The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.

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• The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury’s special qualities.

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• The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It’s bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.

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• Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.

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• President Bush’s mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office.

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• Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response.

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• Maine’s long and cold winters may help keep our State’s population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people.

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• In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have.

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• In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.

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• If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you’re not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.

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Tom Allen (30)

Birth:	16th April, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Attorney, Politician

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