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"France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions."
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"The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying."
"The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things."
"Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government."
"Any nation that teaches and make there people look for miracles are making their people weak."
"For the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have."
"How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote FOR something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?"
"Countries, states, cities, corporations and laws are all words on paper."
"The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office."
"If a country complains that they don't have good leaders, those leaders are only as a result of the prevailing value system that every citizen of that country has been exposed to."
"It is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people."
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"When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door."
"As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?"
"Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way."
"One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors."
"These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people."
"If we prove capable of showing a pioneering commitment, we shall create a commmunity listened to around the world."
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