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"The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs."

"The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority."

"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

"President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how."
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"Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the exploited and the oppressed of the world, build a classless society, a world socialist federation."

"Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions."

"You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected."

"Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible."

"There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization."

"We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book."

"Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees."

"And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders."
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