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"I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor."
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"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."
"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."
"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."
"Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."
"Good riddance to the blatantly corrupt Democratic Party!"
"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country."
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"Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off."
"I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics."
"It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems."
"I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics."
"So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations."
"It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large."
"I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated."
"Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries."
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