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It's crazy that the Constitution has to be amended to clarify what for the majority of Americans is a clear and true statement: corporations are not people.
~ Chellie Pingree
Amended
American
Clarify
Clear
Constitution
Corporations
Crazy
Majority
People
Statement
True
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Like many older D.C. organizations, Common Cause has had to come a long way both in its use of the Internet and its understanding of the great value of engaging people in a broader online dialogue.
~ Chellie Pingree
Both
Broader
Cause
Come
Common
Common Cause
Dialogue
Engaging
Great
Great Value
Had
Internet
Like
Long
Long Way
Many
Older
Online
Organizations
People
Understanding
Use
Value
Way
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Maine people have a live-and-let-live philosophy, and tend to be fair and open-minded.
~ Chellie Pingree
Fair
Maine
Open-Minded
People
Philosophy
Tend
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Net Neutrality - a guiding principle of the Internet since its beginning - means that content is all treated equally.
~ Chellie Pingree
Beginning
Content
Equally
Guiding
Internet
Means
Net
Neutrality
Principle
Since
Treated
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No one branch of the U.S. government should have supremacy over the other two.
~ Chellie Pingree
Branch
Government
No-One
Other
Over
Should
Supremacy
Two
U.S. Government
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One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.
~ Chellie Pingree
Barney
Congress
Elected
First
Frank
Members
Met
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One of the reasons I wanted to leave my position at Common Cause and return to politics was to regain the freedom to speak out politically - to not be constrained by a non-partisan organization.
~ Chellie Pingree
Cause
Common
Common Cause
Constrained
Freedom
Leave
Organization
Out
Politically
Politics
Position
Reasons
Regain
Return
Speak
Wanted
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Our businesses can't create jobs when they're losing revenue, and the unemployed can't apply for jobs when they can't pay their phone bill.
~ Chellie Pingree
Apply
Bill
Businesses
Create
Jobs
Losing
Our
Pay
Phone
Revenue
Unemployed
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People's mouse clicks decide what businesses, services, and content succeed. Users have equal access to tiny businesses with viral ideas and blue-chip companies, allowing these enterprises to compete on their own merits. It's how so many small start-ups have been able to become Internet success stories.
~ Chellie Pingree
Able
Access
Allowing
Become
Been
Businesses
Clicks
Companies
Compete
Content
Decide
Enterprises
Equal
How
Ideas
Internet
Many
Merits
Mouse
Own
People
Services
Small
Stories
Succeed
Success
Success Stories
Tiny
Users
Viral
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Renewable energy has economic advantages that extend beyond steady, predictable electric rates - and Maine is in a good position to capitalize on those opportunities.
~ Chellie Pingree
Advantages
Beyond
Capitalize
Economic
Electric
Energy
Extend
Good
Maine
Opportunities
Position
Predictable
Rates
Renewable
Renewable Energy
Steady
Those
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The FCC can and indeed should do more to protect the Internet as the free and open environment people have come to expect and depend on - which is why we need to stand up to attacks on the FCC's authority.
~ Chellie Pingree
Attacks
Authority
Come
Depend
Environment
Expect
FCC
Free
Indeed
Internet
More
Need
Open
People
Protect
Should
Stand
Stand Up
Up
Which
Why
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The founding leaders of our country believed in a three-part sharing of governmental power, with each branch jealously watching the actions of the other two.
~ Chellie Pingree
Actions
Believed
Branch
Country
Each
Founding
Governmental Power
Leaders
Other
Our
Power
Sharing
Two
Watching
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The need to do something about global warming is obvious. And it's also pretty clear that the public understands the need for change and is ready to embrace it. What is missing is political will in Congress to stand up to the powerful energy companies and their well-paid lobbyists.
~ Chellie Pingree
About
Also
Change
Clear
Companies
Congress
Embrace
Energy
Global
Global Warming
Lobbyists
Missing
Need
Obvious
Political
Powerful
Pretty
Public
Ready
Something
Stand
Stand Up
Understands
Up
Warming
Will
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There is an incredible renewable energy resource off both coasts of this country - wind and tidal energy that can power our economy, create good paying jobs and reduce greenhouse gas pollution.
~ Chellie Pingree
Both
Country
Create
Economy
Energy
Gas
Good
Greenhouse
Incredible
Jobs
Off
Our
Paying
Pollution
Power
Reduce
Renewable
Renewable Energy
Resource
Wind
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There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you're letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.
~ Chellie Pingree
Answering
Away
Because
Brain
Digging
Emails
Garden
Great
Great Value
Knitting
Letting
Pages
People
Phone
Process
Some
Soup
Stuck
Taking
Talking
Time
Turning
Up
Value
Vegetables
Whatever
You
Your
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We need to make Net Neutrality the law. We need to elect a Congress that will make it a priority to keep this important principal intact - and insure equal and open access to the Internet for all.
~ Chellie Pingree
Access
Congress
Elect
Equal
Important
Insure
Intact
Internet
Keep
Law
Make
Need
Net
Neutrality
Open
Principal
Priority
Will
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When I stood up to oppose an invasion of Iraq in 2002, it wasn't a popular thing to do.
~ Chellie Pingree
Invasion
Iraq
Oppose
Popular
Stood
Thing
Up
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When I was in the Maine Senate and proposed Maine RX - a plan to lower prescription drug costs by forcing the pharmaceutical companies to negotiate - I was told by many people that it was too big an idea, and we couldn't overcome opposition from the drug companies.
~ Chellie Pingree
Big
Companies
Costs
Drug Companies
Forcing
Idea
Lower
Maine
Many
Negotiate
Opposition
Overcome
People
Pharmaceutical
Pharmaceutical Companies
Plan
Prescription
Proposed
Senate
Too
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When you're elected to Congress, you take a vow to uphold the Constitution and its system of checks and balances. That vow doesn't say, 'Unless it's politically uncomfortable.'
~ Chellie Pingree
Balances
Checks
Checks And Balances
Congress
Constitution
Elected
Politically
Say
System
Take
Uncomfortable
Unless
Uphold
Vow
You
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With Net Neutrality, the level playing field that gave us Google, YouTube and eBay when they were start-ups would suddenly start to tilt in favor of the big, established players.
~ Chellie Pingree
Big
eBay
Established
Favor
Field
Gave
Google
Level
Level Playing Field
Net
Neutrality
Players
Playing
Playing Field
Start
Suddenly
Tilt
Us
Were
Would
YouTube
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