Author: cbanaszak@riponsociety.org
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Wisdom From Our 26th President – September 23, 2025
“The war we wage must be waged against misconduct, against wrongdoing wherever it is found; and we must stand heartily for the rights of every decent man, whether he be a man of great wealth or a man who earns his livelihood as a wage-worker or a tiller of the soil.” Eighth Annual Message to…
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Daines & LaHood Discuss Plan to Strengthen Work Requirements for Welfare Recipients
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) and U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood (IL-16) delivered remarks about a plan they have authored to make sure that able-bodied adults who receive federal welfare benefits work at a job as a condition of their receiving a government check.
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Wisdom From Our 26th President – September 16, 2025
“Courtesy among individuals is a good thing, but international courtesy is quite as good a thing.” Before the Periodical Publishers’ Association, Washington, D.C. April 7, 1904
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E&C Subcommittee Chair Griffith Reflects on State of American Politics, Nation’s Health Care
WASHINGTON, DC – Twenty four years after 9/11 and less than 24 hours after the political assassination of conservative media personality and author Charlie Kirk, U.S. House Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Morgan Griffith (VA-09) shared his thoughts on the state of American politics as well as our nation’s health care.
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Bipartisan YIMBY Co-Chairs Moore & Auchincloss Unite to Tackle America’s Housing Crisis
WASHINGTON, DC – As an entire generation faces barriers to homeownership, the co-Chairs of the bipartisan YIMBY Caucus appeared last night before a dinner meeting of The Ripon Society and Franklin Center for Global Policy Exchange to discuss the effort they are leading to address the housing shortage.
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Wisdom From Our 26th President – September 9, 2025
“Societies that cultivate patriotism in the present by keeping alive the memory of what we owe to the patriotism of the past, fill an indispensable function in this Republic.” Speech in Washington, D.C. May 2, 1902
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Appropriations Chair Tom Cole Urges Democrats to Work with GOP Majority to Avoid Government Shutdown
WASHINGTON, DC – With less than four weeks to reach a bipartisan deal and avoid a government shutdown, U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (OK-04) discussed what it is going to take to keep the government up and running in remarks before The Ripon Society yesterday morning.
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Latest Ripon Forum Examines the Importance of U.S. Leadership in Health Research
WASHINGTON, DC — At a time when spending in just about every area of the federal government is coming under intense scrutiny and review, the latest edition of The Ripon Forum examines the importance of investing in health research and why is it critical that the United States remain a global leader in that regard.
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Wisdom From Our 26th President – September 2, 2025
“While I am President I wish the labor man to feel that he has the same right of access to me that the capitalist has; that the doors swing open as easily to the wage-worker as to the head of a big corporation—and no easier.” Letter to a Critic November 26, 1903
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Wisdom From Our 26th President – August 26, 2025
Our prime need as a nation is that every American should understand and work with his fellow-citizens, getting into touch with them, so that by actual contact he may learn that fundamentally he and they have the same interests, needs, and aspirations. Chicago Labor Day Picnic 1900
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Wisdom From Our 26th President – August 19, 2025
“I believe in realizable ideals and in realizing them, in preaching what can be practiced and then in practicing it.” An Autobiography, 1913
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Wisdom From Our 26th President – August 12, 2025
“The first requisite of statesmanship is honesty. ” Letter to Mrs. Nicholson July 18, 1916