Charles Peguy
French poet, essayist, and editor (1873-1914)
Al D’Amato
American politician
Alfonse Marcello D’Amatois an American attorney, lobbyist, and politician who served as a United States senator from New York from 1981 to 1999.
In 1980, after 25 years of involvement in the politics and government of Long Island, D’Amato defeated four-term Republican Sen.
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Alfonse Marcello D’Amatois an American attorney, lobbyist, and politician who served as a United States senator from New York from 1981 to 1999.
In 1980, after 25 years of involvement in the politics and government of Long Island, D’Amato defeated four-term Republican Sen. Jacob Javits in a Republican U.S. Senate primary. D’Amato went on to prevail in the 1980 general election for that office. D’Amato represented the state of New York in the Senate from 1981 to 1999. He was re-elected in 1986 and 1992, but was defeated in 1998 by Democratic Rep. Chuck Schumer.
Following his departure from the Senate, D’Amato founded Park Strategies, a lobbying firm. As of 2024, D’Amato is the last Republican to have represented New York in the U.S. Senate.
7 Quotes by Al D’Amato
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As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.
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No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they’ve overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow is involved in this, whether they got contracts because of him, that’s nonsense.
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Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They’re making a mistake.
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You have to go to where you can make money, and you see in the service area, in the technological area, those are the areas where we’re going to create jobs.
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We’ve got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace.
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Now the fact that terrorists throughout the world see this as an opportunity to defeat the United States, we have to be – and every Democratic candidate, even those who opposed us going in, now say we just simply can’t cut and run.
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The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.
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