Tom Allen Quotes

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Tom Allen

Profession : Politician

Birth : April 16, 1945

By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!

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Through their work with fetal tissue, researchers hope to find ways to harness embryonic stem cells which have the ability to become any type of human cell and could provide new treatments for many illnesses.

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The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.

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In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.

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Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response.

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Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

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Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.

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The Republicans in the House and the Bush administration are bankrupting this country.

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Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity.

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If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.

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They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

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Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.

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I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism.

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President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office.

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What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.

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I think we have a moral obligation to our children that can be easily summarized: number one, protect them from harm.

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To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it.

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Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.

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Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research.

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I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.

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