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Politics Quotes
"The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible."
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"Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward."
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"I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor."
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"The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing."
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"I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberation movement, and I feel cold contempt for those who jeer at it."
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"I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks."
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"Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions that are used to them, but which overpower, ruin and intoxicate the weak and delicate who are not suited for them."
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"Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges."
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"Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence."
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"Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam."
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"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them."
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"To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam."
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"Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face."
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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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"Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign."
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"We chose younger and younger politicians to lead us because they looked good on television and were sharp. But really we should be looking for wisdom, and choosing people who had acquired it; and such people, in general, looked bad on television - gray, lined, thoughtful."
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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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"How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity."
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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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"We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure."
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"British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target."
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"Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege."
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"Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win."
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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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"That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children."
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"Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote."
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"On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers."
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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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"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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"And when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves."
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"What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent."
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"Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?"
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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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"The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated."
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