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Politics Quotes
"Fascism is not the result of dictatorship."
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"We conservatives don't have a corner on saying 'no'. We're just the ones who say it when it's the right thing to say."
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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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"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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"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 think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends."
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"We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course."
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"So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics."
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"I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things."
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"I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott."
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"Fourth, we might have declared an embargo against the shipping from American ports of any merchandise to either one of these governments that persisted in maintaining its military zone."
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"I'm disappointed that Senator DeWine once again chose to go along with his party leaders and their big corporate lobbyist supporters. Ohio deserves a Senator who will be more than a rubber stamp."
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"I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby."
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"Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade."
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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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"Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience."
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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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"I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team."
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"What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party."
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"Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me."
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"Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German."
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"One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless."
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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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"Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics."
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"If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like."
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"As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%."
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"Politics are not the task of a Christian."
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"There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that. It's not specifically anti-Semitism, but it does manifest itself in anti-Semitism as well."
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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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"This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air."
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"To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution."
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"I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
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"But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy."
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"I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day the festival collapsed because the French, you know, film-makers raised the red flag in the festival and ended the festival."
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"You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler."
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"I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s."
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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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"The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin."
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"Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie."
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