Author: Ripon Society
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March 29, 2016
“Criminals always attack the helpless if possible. In exactly similar fashion aggressive and militarist nations attack weak nations where it is possible. Weakness always invites attack. Preparedness usually, but not always, averts it.” – Metropolitan, February 1916
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“People want results.”
WASHINGTON, DC — Illinois Congressmen John Shimkus & Bob Dold spoke to The Ripon Society about the 2016 political environment & the challenges facing the people they represent back home.
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March 22, 2016
“I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends; but I rank dividends below human character.” – Speech in Osawatomie, Kansas August 31, 1910
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Chairman Goodlatte Outlines House Judiciary Committee Agenda
WASHINGTON, DC – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte spoke to The Ripon Society about encryption, criminal justice reform, and some of the other key priorities his panel is working on this year.
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March 15, 2016
“Be truthful; a lie implies fear, vanity, or malevolence.” – The Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts, May 24, 1904
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March 8, 2016
“No man is fit to hold the position of President of the United States at all unless as President he feels that he represents no party but the people as a whole.” – Speech in Dallas, TX, April 5, 1905
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“When we talk about having a crisis, it’s not coming — it is here now.”
WASHINGTON, DC – In remarks to The Ripon Society, U.S. Sens. John Hoeven & Mike Rounds said that Washington needs to return to the fundamental principles of less spending, lower taxes, and fewer regulations to get America back on track.
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March 1, 2016
“I ask in our civic life that we pay heed only to the man’s quality of citizenship, to repudiate as the worst enemy that we can have whoever tries to get us to discriminate for or against any man because of his creed or his birthplace.” – Speech in Milwaukee, WI, October 14, 1912
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Gardner Says It’s Time to Rein in the Administration’s Overreach at Home and Restore America’s Leadership Abroad
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Sen Cory Gardner (R-CO) spoke to The Ripon Society about the Obama Administration’s regulatory overreach at home and lack of leadership around the world.
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February 23, 2016
“Politicians proverbially like a colorless candidate, and the very success of what I have done, the number of things I have accomplished, and the extent of my record, may prove to be against me.” – Letter to Henry White, April 4, 1904
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Ripon Society Holds 6th Annual Senior Congressional Staff Symposium on Leadership at Mount Vernon
WASHINGTON, DC — Joe Scarborough & Mika Brzezinski delivered keynote remarks at The Ripon Society’s annual symposium, which drew over 150 top congressional aides to the historic estate of America’s first President.
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Latest Ripon Forum Looks at the Next Steps in Education Reform
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Abraham Lincoln once called education the “most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.” In recent years, education has also been a subject that has fallen victim to partisan gridlock.