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Politics Quotes
"Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen."
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"What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?"
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"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."
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"The most censored speech in America today is not flag-burning, pornography, or the press."
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"Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales."
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"When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor."
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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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"Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream."
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"I for one believe that we absolutely need an improved guest worker program, one that holds immigrants and employers accountable and yet still enables us to get a crop out of the ground in south Georgia."
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"For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford."
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"Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts."
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"We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism."
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"One of the first things we found out was that the Warren Commission never pursued a conspiracy investigation."
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"The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves."
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"The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure."
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"They use the pretext of avoiding war, to make you swallow any kind of peace, said Paul. They use the pretext of a revolution to involve us in any kind of war, said Jardinet."
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"If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?"
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"I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president."
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"A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world."
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"I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university."
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"If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress."
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"In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution."
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"The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice."
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"Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments."
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"Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia."
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"I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy."
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"The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself."
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"Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life."
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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 Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink."
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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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"It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought - that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc - should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words."
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"My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order."
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"Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered."
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"Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
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"After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain."
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"To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race."
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