In a message to students, the Massachusetts senator uses the exact words as remarks delivered by the former North Carolina senator at her campaign kickoff in 2002. He is, however, probably pretty embarrassed at the fact that his website lifted, verbatim, an entire paragraph from a speech Liddy Dole gave in 2002: 
 
 "I was raised to believe that there are no limits to individual achievement and no excuses to justify indifference," said the message from Brown, which was removed later yesterday. “From an early age, I was taught that success is measured not in material accumulations, but in service to others. I was encouraged to join causes larger than myself, to pursue positive change through a sense of mission, and to stand up for what I believe.” 
 
 Aside from the omission of an opening line -- “I am Mary and John Hanford’s daughter” -- in Dole’s speech, the Bay State Republican’s language is the same throughout. You can read the speech on Google Books here; the plagiarism was uncovered by a liberal political action committee called American Bridge 21st Century and reported out by Alex Katz of the Boston Globe. According to a Brown spokesman, the whole thing was a "staff level oversight" that resulted in the passage being "inadvertently transferred without being rewritten."
– It hasn’t been a good couple of weeks for Scott Brown: Last week, there was that unfortunate Elizabeth Warren comment; now, he's being accused of plagiarism. A liberal super PAC discovered that Brown’s website lifted a significant portion of an Elizabeth Dole speech from 2002, the Boston Globe reports. The remarks, which have since been removed, start, “I was raised to believe that there are no limits to individual achievement and no excuses to justify indifference,” and follow the rest of Dole’s comment verbatim. They do leave out a fairly important opening line, however: “I am Mary and John Hanford’s daughter.” A Brown spokesperson says it was simply an oversight, and that the language was “inadvertently transferred” from Dole’s site, which staffers used as a model for Brown’s. Gawker points to the Dole passage, which is available on Google Books, and notes that the line immediately following the cited comments was also conveniently omitted: “I am Bob Dole’s wife." Complains the super PAC president, “The fact that he can’t come up with a personal values statement of his own, that he has to steal someone else’s, I think is very instructive of what kind of politician he is."