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"Politics is compromise."
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"Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO."
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"The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses."
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"The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions."
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"The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background."
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"I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do."
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"Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign."
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"Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support."
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"Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship."
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"This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first."
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"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use."
Language
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
Wisdom
"Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet."
Wisdom
"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up."
Wisdom
"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."
Life
"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?"
Society
"One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning."
Learning
"I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals. They are just charming, and they have the kindest disposition and the politest ways; they never look sour, they never let you feel that you are intruding, they smile at you and wag their tail, if they've got one, and they are always ready for a romp or an excursion or anything you want to propose."
Friendship
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
Happiness
"In the afternoon the ship's company assembled aft, on deck, under the awnings; the flute, the asthmatic meodeon, and the consumptive clarinet crippled the Star Spangled Banner, the choir chased it to cover, and George came in with a peculiarly lacerating screech on the final note and slaughtered it. Nobody mourned. We carried out the corpse on three cheers (that joke was not intentional and I do not endorse it)."
Humor
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