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I just like the people and the culture of Southeast Asia.

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If a minister can lead the Senate in prayer every day... what is so wrong with beginning every day of school with an ecumenical prayer?

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It's hard for me to think about this, but I first went to Southeast Asia as a Marine more than 40 years ago, as a young Marine. I was on Okinawa and then in Vietnam. I've returned in many different hats, which I think has helped me to form my own views about policy out there. I've spent a good bit of time in this region as a journalist.

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One of the issues that I've raised on the Foreign Relations Committee, and I raised it when Secretary Locke came for his confirmation hearing, is, you know, it is in our benefit to develop a workable, positive formula with China.

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History shows that you can't - you can't have security in Southeast Asia without security in Northeast Asia. It's just the reality.

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I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America's economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship.

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Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its aftermath.

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Contrary to assumptions in the law, white America is hardly a monolith.

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There is nothing that's been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn't been either illuminating surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot.

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I am a junior senator, ninety-fifth on the seniority list, and so by Senate standards, my office in the Russell Senate Office Building is less than splendid.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: February 9th, 1946

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