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Politics Quotes
"I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded."
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"I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do."
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"The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy."
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"Corporations barely pay taxes. The corporate tax rate is already very low, but corporations have worked out an array of complicated techniques so they often don't have to pay taxes at all... The scale of sheer robbery by corporate power is enormous."
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"Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO."
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"The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky."
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"And as you point out, for American families who struggle every day to figure out how do they pay, we talk about gasoline prices. That throws budgets into a real problem when you have budgeted really tight."
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"The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops."
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"I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do."
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"First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights."
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"The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks."
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"To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics."
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"Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states."
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"I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics."
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"Does politics have to be injected into everything?"
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"The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.'"
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"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."
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"Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics."
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"But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists."
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"Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
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"I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed."
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"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."
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"In the first State of the Union of his second term, President Bush made clear to Americans tonight that he is not going to play the role of a lame duck President."
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"I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality."
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"When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency."
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"That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution."
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"For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher."
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"The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are."
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"If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress."
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"Every one of our congressional offices, every day, is under attack."
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"Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity."
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"Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned."
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"To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs."
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"You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo."
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"We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget."
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"Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero."
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"The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future."
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"The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters."
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"I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't."
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