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| x Paul Volcker |
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Paul Adolph Volcker (born September 5, 1927) is an American economist. He was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve under United States Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan (from August 1979 to August 1987). He is currently chairman of the newly...
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| x Warren Buffett |
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Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930) is an American investor, businessman, and philanthropist. He is one of the most successful investors in history, the primary shareholder and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, and in 2008 was ranked by Forbes as...
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| x Robert Rubin |
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Robert Edward Rubin is Director and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Citigroup. He served as the 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury during both the first and second Clinton Administrations.
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| x Rahm Emanuel |
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Rahm Israel Emanuel (born November 29, 1959) is an American politician currently serving as White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama. He served previously as Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing...
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| x Bill Richardson |
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William Blaine "Bill" Richardson III (born November 15, 1947) is a Democratic politician and the current Governor of New Mexico. Prior to being elected governor, Richardson served in the Clinton administration as U.S. Ambassador to the United...
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| x Chuck Hagel |
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Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel (born October 4, 1946) is a former United States Senator from Nebraska. A member of the Republican Party, he was first elected in 1996 and was reelected in 2002. On 10 February 2009, he was elected as Chairman of the...
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| x John Kerry |
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John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, and is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. As the Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, he was defeated by 34 electoral votes...
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| x Robert Gates |
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Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is currently serving as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense. He took office on December 18, 2006. Prior to this, Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National...
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| x United States Secretary of State |
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The United States Secretary of State is the head of the United States Department of State, concerned with foreign affairs. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet and the highest-ranking cabinet secretary both in line of succession and...
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| x United States Secretary of the Treasury |
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The United States Secretary of the Treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, concerned with finance and monetary matters, and, until 2003, some issues of national security and defense. This position in the Federal...
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| x United States Secretary of Defense |
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The United States Secretary of Defense (SecDef) is the head of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), concerned with the armed services and military matters. This position roughly corresponds to Minister of defense in other countries. The role of the...
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| x United States Attorney General |
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The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice (see 28 U.S.C. § 503) concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government. The Attorney General is considered...
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| x United States Secretary of Homeland Security |
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The United States Secretary of Homeland Security is the head of the United States Department of Homeland Security, the body concerned with protecting the American homeland and the safety of American citizens. The Secretary is a member of the...
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| x National Security Advisor |
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The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor (abbreviated NSA, or sometimes APNSA or ANSA to avoid confusion with the abbreviation of the National Security Agency), serves as the...
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| x United States Secretary of Agriculture |
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The United States Secretary of Agriculture is the head of the United States Department of Agriculture. The current secretary is Tom Vilsack, who was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on 20 January 2009. The position carries similar responsibilities to...
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| x United States Secretary of Commerce |
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The United States Secretary of Commerce is the head of the United States Department of Commerce concerned with business and industry; the Department states its mission to be "to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce." Until...
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| x United States Secretary of Education |
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The United States Secretary of Education is the head of the Department of Education. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet, and 16th in line of United States presidential line of succession. The United States Secretary of Education...
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| x United States Secretary of Energy |
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The United States Secretary of Energy is the head of the United States Department of Energy, a member of the President's Cabinet, and fifteenth in the Presidential line of succession. The post was created with the formation of the Department of...
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| x United States Secretary of Health and Human Services |
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The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services is the head of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, concerned with health matters. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet. The office was formerly Secretary...
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| x United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
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The United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is the head of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, concerned with urban housing matters. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet.
The department was...
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| x United States Secretary of the Interior |
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The United States Secretary of the Interior is the head of the United States Department of the Interior.
The US Department of the Interior should not be confused with the concept of Ministries of the Interior as used in other countries. Ministries...
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| x United States Secretary of Labor |
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The United States Secretary of Labor is the head of the Department of Labor who exercises control over the department and enforces and suggests laws involving unions, the workplace and all other issues involving any form of business-person...
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| x United States Secretary of Transportation |
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The United States Secretary of Transportation is the head of the United States Department of Transportation. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet. Ray LaHood is the current Secretary of Transportation.
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| x United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
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The United States Secretary of Veterans' Affairs is the head of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the department concerned with veterans' benefits and related matters. The Secretary is a member of the Cabinet and second to last at...
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| x White House Chief of Staff |
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The White House Chief of Staff is the highest ranking member of the Executive Office of the President of the United States and a senior aide to the President. The office-holder has been dubbed "The Second-Most Powerful Man in Washington" due to the...
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| x Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency |
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The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is the head of the United States federal government's Environmental Protection Agency, and is thus responsible for enforcing the nation's Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, as well as numerous...
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| x Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. |
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| x A good GI bill would increase the recruit pool. | ||
| x Just give it a try | ||
| x Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. | ||
| x I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. | ||
| x If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress. | ||
| x Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues. | ||
| x My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington. | ||
| x My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. | ||
| x There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America. |
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| x Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction. | ||
| x Dick Lugar |
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Richard Green "Dick" Lugar (born April 4, 1932) is the senior United States Senator from Indiana. He is a member of the Republican Party and served as the mayor of Indianapolis from 1968 to 1976 and was elected to the United States Senate in 1976...
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| x Timothy F. Geithner |
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Timothy Franz Geithner (pronounced /ˈɡaɪtnər/; born August 18, 1961) is the 75th and current United States Secretary of the Treasury, serving under President Barack Obama. He was previously the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York....
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| x Sheila C. Bair |
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Sheila Colleen Bair (born April 3, 1954) is the Chairwoman of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). She was appointed to the post for a five-year term on June 26, 2006 by George W. Bush. Bair will also serve as a member of the FDIC...
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| x Richard J. Danzig |
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Richard Jeffrey Danzig (born September 8, 1944) is an American lawyer who served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy under President Bill Clinton. He is currently an advisor to President Barack Obama.
Danzig was born in New York City, attended the...
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| x Janet Napolitano |
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Janet Ann Napolitano (born November 29, 1957) is the third United States Secretary of Homeland Security. She assumed the job on January 21, 2009, and is the first woman to serve in that office. An American politician from the Democratic Party,...
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| x Eric Holder |
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Eric Himpton Holder, Jr. (born January 21, 1951) is the 82 and current Attorney General of the United States and the first Black American to hold the position. He is serving under President Barack Obama.
Holder previously served as a judge of the...
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| x Timothy J. Roemer |
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Timothy John "Tim" Roemer (born October 30, 1956) is an American political figure currently serving as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of India. He was nominated by U.S. President Barack Obama as the 21st U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of India on...
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| x Susan Collins |
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Susan Margaret Collins (born December 7, 1952, in Caribou, Maine) is the junior U.S. Senator from Maine and a member of the Republican Party. Collins was re-elected on November 4, 2008.
Collins is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of St. Lawrence University...
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| x William J. Bratton |
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William Joseph "Bill" Bratton (born October 6, 1947) is the chief of police of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). He previously served as the New York City Police Commissioner and Boston Police Commissioner.
In September 11, 2009, he was...
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| x Gary Hart |
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Gary Hart (born Gary Warren Hartpence, November 28, 1936) is an American politician, lawyer, author, professor and commentator. He formerly served as a Democratic Senator representing Colorado (1975–1987), and ran in the U.S. presidential elections...
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| x Jane Harman |
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Jane Margaret Lakes Harman (born June 28, 1945), is a seven-term Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing California's 36th congressional district. It was reported in September 2008 that she is the richest member...
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| x Samantha Power |
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Samantha Power (born September 21, 1970, in Ireland) is an Irish American journalist, writer, academic, and government official. She is currently affiliated with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of...
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| x Greg Craig |
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Gregory Bestor "Greg" Craig (born March 4, 1945) is a Washington-based lawyer and current White House Counsel to President Barack Obama. He has represented numerous high-profile clients, including John Hinckley, Jr., who was acquitted of the...
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| x Susan E. Rice |
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Susan Elizabeth Rice (born on November 17, 1964) is an American foreign policy advisor and United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Rice served on the staff of the National Security Council and as Assistant Secretary of State for African...
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| x Anthony Zinni |
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Anthony Charles Zinni (born September 17, 1943) is a retired four-star General in the United States Marine Corps and a former Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). In 2002, he was selected to be a special envoy for the United States...
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| x James Steinberg |
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James B. "Jim" Steinberg (born 1953) is an American academic and political advisor, and is currently Deputy Secretary of State. He was previously the Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
He was...
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| x Collin Peterson |
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Collin Clark Peterson (b. June 29, 1944 in Fargo, North Dakota), is an American politician from the U.S. state of Minnesota. Peterson has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991, representing Minnesota's 7th...
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| x Tom Vilsack |
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Thomas James "Tom" Vilsack (born December 13, 1950) is an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and presently the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. He served as the 40th Governor of the state of Iowa. He was first elected in 1998 and...
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| x Jim Leach |
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James Albert Smith "Jim" Leach (born October 15, 1942) is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa. In August 2009, he became Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities ("NEH").
Prior to his appointment as NEH...
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| x Tom Daschle |
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Thomas Andrew Daschle (born December 9, 1947) is a former U.S. Senator from South Dakota and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
A South Dakota native, Daschle obtained his university degree there, and served...
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| x Kathleen Sebelius |
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Kathleen Sebelius (née Gilligan, born May 15, 1948) is an American politician currently serving as the 21st Secretary of Health and Human Services. She was the second female governor of Kansas from 2003 to 2009, the Democratic respondent to the 2008...
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| x Olympia Snowe |
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Olympia Jean Snowe McKernan (born February 21, 1947), née Bouchles, is the senior United States Senator from Maine. She is a Republican and a leading moderate within the party. Snowe has become widely known for her ability to influence the outcome...
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| x Penny Pritzker |
Penny Sue Pritzker (born 1959) is an American business executive, and a member of the Pritzker family of Chicago, one of America's wealthiest business families. She is the founder and current Chair of Classic Residence by Hyatt, a chain of luxury...
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