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"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

"You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country's election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida."

"The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in."

"My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country."

"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."
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"I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country."


"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."


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


"Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war."


"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."


"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."


"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."
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