American - Politician | June 11, 1930 -
We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.
Charles B. Rangel
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At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.
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There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.
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I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq.
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The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.
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The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.
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The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.
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Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.
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As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.
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Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.
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Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.
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Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.
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