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"Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity."
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"Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support."

"Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."

"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."

"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."

"If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!"

"On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!"

"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."
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"It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope."

"I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules."

"This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue."

"We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited."

"I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues."

"It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within."
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