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Barack Obama Politician
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"We have to deal with the 11 million individuals who are here illegally. The bill that Senator [Marco] Rubio put forward, I think is a great place to start."

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Tom Waits Singer-songwriter, Actor
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"Bill Hicks - blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built."

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Stephen King Author
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"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."

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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
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"There is a time for everything. There is a time when I sit down, I concentrate myself on the problem of my bills, but I would not worry before that. One thing at a time."

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George Washington Military Leader, Politician
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"Even the country's first president chafed at the limits placed on him by the writers of the U.S. Constitution. From the nature of the Constitution, ... I must approve all the parts of a bill, or reject it in toto."

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Michelle Obama Lawyer, Author, First Lady
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"Believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our mortgage."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"I know that historically our foundation has had great relations with all the administrations.[Bill] Clinton administration did a lot of outreach. The greatest rise in U.S. foreign aid was under the [George] Bush administration, that's where we got the AIDS initiative, which is called PEPFAR."

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Rich Lowry Political Commentator
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"Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control."

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Shane West Actor, Musician
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"I've always been a big fan of Bill Paxton, and I met him at the American Pie premiere"

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Keanu Reeves Actor, Producer
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"But I did 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.' They made a cereal out of it, so once you've had a cereal, it doesn't get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal."

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Freddie Mercury Musician, Singer
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"And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product."

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Mercer Reynolds Businessman
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"In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"John Conyers and I were the ones who wrote the bill that provides for Medicare for all. And, so, even though the single-payer plan is not what's before the Congress, to expand Medicare, so that people 55 and up would be - would have the chance to buy in, that's - that would be a step in the right direction, no question about it."

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Calvin Coolidge Politician
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"You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones."

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