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Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.

~Evan Bayh

Topics: Age-Old American American Experience Baseball Ben Citizens Congress Country David Deeper Elected Elected Officials Even Experience Founding Franklin Fun Historical Letterman Made May National Officials Our Pastime Roots Since Sport Swing Taking Tradition

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Before the Colts arrived in 1947, the best athlete in town was a woman duckpin bowler named Toots Barger. Football? The biggest games in Baltimore had been when Johns Hopkins took on Susquehanna or Franklin & Marshall at homecoming.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Arrived Athlete Baltimore Been Before Best Biggest Bowler Football Franklin Games Had Homecoming Hopkins Marshall Named Took Town Woman

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Women are a key part of the sound of the groups that accompany male singers like Kirk Franklin, Israel Houghton, and myself.

~Fred Hammond

Topics: Accompany Franklin Groups Israel Key Kirk Like Male Myself Part Singers Sound Women Women Are

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The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

~Gaylord Nelson

Topics: Appreciated Around Complicated Franklin Franklin Roosevelt Geometric Issues More Number Roosevelt Some Than Them Times Today

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Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

~Gaylord Nelson

Topics: About Concerned Environmental Environmental Issues Franklin Franklin Roosevelt Issues Roosevelt Very

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I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.

~George Thorogood

Topics: Any Aretha Elvis Elvis Presley Franklin Going Know Like People Sing Those

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Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and JFK died in office, so their successors ran as incumbents.

~George Will

Topics: Been Both Democratic Democrats Died Emergence Followed Franklin Franklin Roosevelt John Kennedy Office Only Party Presidents Ran Republican Republican Party Roosevelt Since Two Jfk

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