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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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"All great peoples are conservative."
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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
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"Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time."
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"I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am."
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"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
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"The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity."
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"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."
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"The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall."
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"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."
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