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"One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat."
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"And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat?"
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"Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."
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"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."
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"A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat."
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"I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter."
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"I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves."
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"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
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"The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee."
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"What we now have in Iraq is a defeat."
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"We don't defeat evil by becoming evil."
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"I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word "fair" in connection with income tax policies."
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"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."
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"We love your adherence to democratic principles."
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"One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians."
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"All adventure is now reactionary."
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"I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob."
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"A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'"
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"The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it."
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"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security."
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"One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat."
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