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"I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up."

"I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan."

"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."

"Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?"

"Physical action [paudgalik kriya] will give only worldly fruits; it will not go in vain. If you plant sugar cane, you will eat sweet food and if you plant bitter gourd, you will eat bitter food. Plant whichever taste appeals to you and if you want liberation [Moksha], then don't plant anything. Stop sowing seeds altogether."

"Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened."

"As much purity one has within, his external circumstances will be that much more favorable. As much impurity there is within, there will be a corresponding amount of unfavorable external circumstances."
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"I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides."


"I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands."


"We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world."


"Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime."


"There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000."


"It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose."


"Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government."


"I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament."


"I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country."
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