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"I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq."
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"Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support."

"Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."

"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."

"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."

"If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!"

"On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!"

"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."
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"I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal."

"People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning."

"I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it."

"Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment."
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