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"Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO."

"The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses."

"The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions."

"The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background."

"I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do."

"Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign."

"Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support."

"Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship."

"This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first."
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"When I was growing up, there were just the three channels, so as a nation we all sat down to the same meal at the end of the day. Now there's been this explosion."

"I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression."

"When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994."

"In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian."

"I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen."

"Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody."
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