Chuck Grassley Quotes

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Chuck Grassley

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 17, 1933

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

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My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.

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You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family.

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Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

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I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates.

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You ought to serve on the platform you run on.

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If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.

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Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals?

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My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

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The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.

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The public relies on the advice of doctors and leading researchers. The public has a right to know about financial relationships between those doctors and the drug companies who make the pharmaceuticals prescribed by doctors.

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Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.

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I can support co-ops if they want to do it as we've known co-ops in America for 150 years - where they serve the purposes of the consuming public, whether it's health care or whether it's co-ops as we know them in the Midwest, providing electricity or to sell supplies to farmer.

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In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.

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If Americans could legally access prescription drugs outside the United States, then drug companies would be forced to re-evaluate their pricing strategy.

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We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved.

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I get paid by the year, and I try to earn my money.

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Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.

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I'm the policy-maker; I'm the lawmaker.

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I think that less presidential interference the better.

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