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Politics Quotes


"The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited."


"I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case."


"The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia."


"In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations."


"Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out."


"I am maintaining my schedule of commuting to Washington, D.C. each week from Oregon so that I can spend my weekends and days when we are not in session traveling to communities throughout my district."


"We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts."


"If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights."


"If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it."


"Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term."


"This drug coverage program was clearly designed by Republicans in Congress to serve the interests of the drug and insurance industries. America's seniors were an afterthought."


"Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public."


"For me it is completely clear that our air bases in Germany would be available to the Americans."



"If he wants their labor, let them go to work, without regard to politics."



"Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics."


"It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it."


"He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it."


"They have had three years to get a resolution and they failed. Both of these guys have failed."


"I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes."


"We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric."


"As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade."


"On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers."


"Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State."


"George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech."


"And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition."


"I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."


"They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward."


"Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little."


"We have a set of sensible policies that are appropriate for the 21st century and which strike a chord of appeal with the silent majority. Perhaps that is why we are welcoming new members every week who have never before been involved in politics."


"The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel."


"I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs."


"Today is a great day, not only of healing and reconciliation, but also coming together. I'm so glad the whole Little Rock Nine was alive and here to see this."


"America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community."


"I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics."


"I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress."


"I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right."


"It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes."
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