Bill Frist Quotes

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.
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Eye Mean Notion Ridiculous
It is our duty and our privilege to keep America moving forward.
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Country Duty Moving Privilege
This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.
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Borders Legislation Needs Water
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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People Successful Two
I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend and can extend to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.
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Men Union Values Western Women
The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.
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Government Leader People
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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Long Senior Support Threaten
America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.
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Country Moving Way Forward
Our top focus – protecting our Nation – must go beyond homeland preparedness; America will only be secure if we deal with threats before they happen, not just after they happen.
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Country Focus Happen Preparedness Secure
Individuals by themselves can make a difference. And by making a difference, you can improve the world.
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Difference Individual Making World
The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
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Best Expansion Freedom World
America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can’t afford it, access it and doctor’s can’t provide it.
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Country Doctors Provide World
I am troubled… that someone would sell a book, trading on their former service as a government insider with access to our nation’s most valuable intelligence, in order to profit from the suffering that this nation endured on September 11, 2001.
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Attack Book Government Order September Suffer
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.
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Congratulations Land Our Survival World
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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Blind Communication Notion Stock Trustees
The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
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Country Experience Important Thread
Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.
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Congress Should Thinking Waiting
In the wake of this disaster, the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida should know that the United States Congress stands ready to help them in their time of need,.
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Alabama Florida People
As a matter of principle, we believe all Americans deserve affordable, available, and reliable quality health care.
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Affordable Country Healthy Quality Reliable
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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Country Gift Precious September Thinking
As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions.
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Belief Marijuana Pain Physician Sympathy
After obtaining pre-approval by mid-June from the Senate ethics committee, I issued a letter directing my trustees to sell any remaining HCA stock in my family’s trust.
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Committee Directing Family Issue Trust Trustees
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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Believe Doctors Matter Quality
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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Account Personal Powerful Retirement Senior
America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world.
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Country Doctors Healthy Nurses Technology
[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.
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Careers Death Support
It is very important that the president thematically shows where we’re going in terms of the vision and an agenda.
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Important President Vision

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