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Politics Quotes
"I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered."
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"Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today."
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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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"Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish."
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"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
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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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"In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them."
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"I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq."
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"I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking."
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"War, money and greed that is the modern heinous Trinity, and they are inseparable these days."
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"It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and feign in their declamations-not in their personal conduct-a disdain of things secular and transitory. But the public ignores such utterances. The main goal of present-day political action is to secure for the respective pressure group memberships the highest material well-being. The only way for a leader to succeed is to instill in people the conviction that his program best serves the attainment of this goal."
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"Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs."
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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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"More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown."
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"By now, they rank people by income level or wages roughly the same: The bottom seventy per cent or so are virtually disenfranchised; they have almost no influence on policy, and as you move up the scale you get more influence. At the very top, you basically run the show."
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"I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics."
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"Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law."
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"Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person."
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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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"In my country we go to prison first and then become President."
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"This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come."
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"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."
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"I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics."
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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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"Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago."
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"So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida."
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"Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party."
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"You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example."
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"There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization."
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"The most censored speech in America today is not flag-burning, pornography, or the press."
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"Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America."
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"We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings."
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"Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned."
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"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."
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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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"Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts."
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"Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter."
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