Author: cbanaszak@riponsociety.org
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BIOTech Caucus Leaders Bice & Houlahan Warn China is Leading Critical National Security Race
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswomen Stephanie Bice (R-OK-05) and Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA-06), co-chairs of the bipartisan BIOTech Caucus, addressed The Ripon Society and Franklin Center for Global Policy Exchange highlighting the urgent need for Congress to prioritize biotechnology.
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Wisdom From Our 26th President – November 18, 2025
“…justice and generosity in a nation, as in an individual, count most when shown not by the weak but by the strong.” Second Inaugural Address March 4, 1905
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Latest Ripon Forum Examines The State of America’s Veterans
WASHINGTON, DC — With Veterans Day approaching and for the seventh consecutive year, The Ripon Forum is dedicating an entire edition to those who served our country in uniform, a group of Americans that is not only smaller now than at any point in modern history, but is also more diverse and dispersed.
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Ricketts Outlines Republican Path to Expanding Senate Majority
WASHINGTON, DC – As Americans in several states cast their votes in off-year elections, Senator Pete Ricketts (NE), Vice Chair of the NRSC, addressed The Ripon Society, outlining an ambitious Republican strategy for expanding the party’s Senate majority in the 2026 midterm elections and addressing the ongoing government shutdown.
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Wisdom From Our 26th President – November 4, 2025
“I feel that in a peculiar degree New York is not representative of the country.” Letter to Anna Roosevelt Cowles October 16, 1902
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Lawler Delivers Straight Talk about Ending the Shutdown, Reforming Immigration, and the Need to Find Common Ground in Washington
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler (NY-17) appeared yesterday morning before a breakfast meeting of The Ripon Society, delivering remarks in which he not only criticized the ongoing government shutdown as being “the dumbest thing one can engage in,” but called for a renewed commitment to bipartisan governance and comprehensive immigration reform.
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Rounds Details Urgent AI Competition with China
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (SD) appeared yesterday afternoon before a luncheon meeting of The Ripon Society, delivering remarks about the plans he is leading to ensure the United States is at the leading edge of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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Wisdom From Our 26th President – October 28, 2025
“Under no form of government is it so necessary thus to combine efficiency and morality, high principle and rough common sense, justice and the sturdiest physical and moral courage, as in a republic.” Inaugural address as the Governor of New York January 2, 1899
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Wisdom From Our 26th President – October 21, 2025
“I believe so thoroughly that the average American is a pretty good fellow that I feel that what we chiefly need is to have him find the viewpoint of any other average American, in order to have them work well together. In the long run our interests are common.” Mitchell, South Dakota April 6, 1903
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Wisdom From Our 26th President – October 14, 2025
“A man must have in him a strong and earnest sense of duty and the desire to accomplish good for the commonwealth, without regard to the effect upon himself, to be useful in Congress.” Harvard Graduates’ Magazine, October 1892
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Wisdom From Our 26th President – October 7, 2025
“Our country offers the most wonderful example of democratic government on a giant scale that the world has ever seen; and the peoples of the world are watching to see whether we succeed or fail.” Saratoga, New York September 27, 1910
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Wisdom From Our 26th President – September 30, 2025
“Under our form of government, no man can accomplish anything by himself. He must work in combination with others.” Century Magazine January 1885