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Politics Quotes
"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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"I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America."
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"The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?"
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"It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America."
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"I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America."
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"Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden."
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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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"Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will."
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"When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use."
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"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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"The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around."
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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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"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
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"If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong."
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"In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution."
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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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"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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"He's an honest politician--he stays bought."
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"Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions."
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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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"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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"The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction."
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"Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison."
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"Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life."
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"Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign."
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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 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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"Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy."
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"No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament."
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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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"I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics."
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"We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it."
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"Does politics have to be injected into everything?"
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