The notion that you have a blind trust but you can tell your trustee when to sell stock in it just doesn’t make any sense. It means you have a seeing eye trust and not a blind trust. It’s ridiculous.
BILL FRISTCongress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.
More Bill Frist Quotes
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Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.
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As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions.
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The United States has put more money on HIV, AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis than any country in the world and it’s having an impact real quick.
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Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future.
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The enemies of freedom will not prevail.
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The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.
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The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
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We have determined enemies who will use any means available to take the lives of as many Americans as possible.
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As a matter of principle, we believe patients should be able to see the right doctor at the right time. As a matter of principle, we believe nothing should interfere with that doctor-patient relationship.
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When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.
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Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.
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In May, my staff worked with outside counsel and with the Senate ethics committee staff to draft a written communication to the trustees.
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Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.
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September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.
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Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
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