Tom Daschle Quotes

• Let there be no doubt: the state of our union is strong – stronger than the terrorists who seek to harm us and stronger than the challenges that confront us. At the same time, we know that our union can be stronger still.

  Tom Daschle

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Stronger

•  Bipartisanship isn’t an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

   

  Tom Daschle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Option, Requirement

• I’ve been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president’s manner with which he handled this budget.

  Tom Daschle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Budget

•  People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about – the economy, education and health care.

   

  Tom Daschle

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Opportunities

• It would be nice if we could clear up the nominations that are still out there, and there are a lot of them.

  Tom Daschle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Election

• President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it’s a long commute to China to get those jobs.

  Tom Daschle

  Topics in Economy, Job

• It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be.

  Tom Daschle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Election

• We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that… we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.

  Tom Daschle

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Force

• Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

  Tom Daschle

  Topics in Mistake

• The campaign is over. It’s time for the work of governing to begin.

  Tom Daschle

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Time

• Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.

  Tom Daschle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nation, Destruction

• Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included.

  Tom Daschle

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Like, Feel

• We know we’re up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.

  Tom Daschle

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Minority

• We must correct the problems and inequities in the way we conduct and decide elections in the United States.

  Tom Daschle

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Election

• On issues relating to taxes, you don’t always speak with one voice.

  Tom Daschle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Issue, Tax

• We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

  Tom Daschle

  Topics in Politics

• We must govern from the middle, or we will not be able to govern at all.

  Tom Daschle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Govern

• This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

  Tom Daschle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in President, War

• What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

  Tom Daschle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acceptance

• When you’re in the minority, it doesn’t matter what you’re agenda is, you’re not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

  Tom Daschle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Majority, Minority

Tom Daschle (21)

Birth:	9th December, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Advisor, Leader, Politician, Senator

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