93 Quotes by Olympia Snowe

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    She did make an extraordinary difference for women as I can tell you from my own personal experience. I well remember the sense of awe when I came to Washington, D.C. ... as a senior in college, sitting across the desk from her. Little did I realize that because of the doors that she opened she would make it possible for me to sit one day at her very desk on the floor of the United States Senate.

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    More mouthpieces doesn't guarantee diversity and localism and competition, ... Diversity of ownership does.

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    needed to offer a personal, passionate and sincere renunciation of racism and segregation in all its forms, and he did that.

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    People will have trouble keeping a job, or even getting a job if their genetic information gets to an insurer, a potential employer or even an employer,

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    I don't believe any amount of cost savings can justify leaving an entire quadrant of the nation defenseless, ... This decision ... could result in incalculable harm to our nation's security.

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    I am confounded by the failure of this rule to meet either the spirit or letter of the law, ... It is clearly delinquent in protecting all Americans equally from the hazards of mercury.

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    I believe the Congress - as a coequal branch of government - must immediately and expeditiously review the use of this practice.

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    I believe the Congress ù as a coequal branch of government ù must immediately and expeditiously review the use of this practice.

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    I find it regrettable that there are those who are trying to resurrect a filibuster even as there is clearly nothing in the record that constitutes extraordinary circumstances.

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