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Politics Quotes


"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."


"On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics."


"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."


"Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry."


"Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream."


"The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39."


"And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so."


"I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more."


"Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity."


"Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars."


"Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are."


"Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism."


"First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures."


"I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics."


"Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers."


"When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism."


"Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America."


"We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances."


"Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero."


"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."


"In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance."


"On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship."


"I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point."



"The last four years have not diluted the memory or weakened the resolve of our citizens. Four years later, our hearts still hurt for the families whose loved ones were murdered that day."


"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican."


"We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes."


"You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it."


"The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America."


"In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections... Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy."


"What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president."


"I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come."


"Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining."
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