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"People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics."
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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."
"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."
"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."
"It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system."
"Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems."
"Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments."
"We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes."
"Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of American's who were saying, 'Stop!'"
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"People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance."
"The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War."
"It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching."
"But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war."
"Despite this lamentable lack of balance in our education I do not believe that either children or adults in my country are permeated by a widespread hostility to Germany."
"It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq."
"Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time."
"Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves."
"But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich."
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