Daniel Inouye Quotes

• A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers.

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• These hearings will be remembered longest not for the facts they elicited, but for the extraordinary and extraordinarily frightening views of government they exposed.

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• No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife.

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• I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president.

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• I do not personally agree with some of the positions that Mr. Gonzales has advocated, but that should come as no surprise, because I do not agree with many of the proposals made by the man who nominated him, President Bush.

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• I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.

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• Mr. Gonzales’ failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.

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• One doesn’t become a soldier in a week – it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States.

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• The President’s speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

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• Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.

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Daniel Inouye (10)

Birth:	7th September, 1924
Death:	17th December, 2012
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

Daniel Ken "Dan" Inouye was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was an American politician. He was a United States Senator from Hawaii from 1963 to 2012. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He also served as chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations. He was elected to Hawaii's territorial House of Representatives in 1953. Inouye was the first Japanese American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and later the first in the U.S. Senate. During the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Inouye served as a medical volunteer.

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