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Politics Quotes
"Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote."
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"Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction."
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"And when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves."
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"There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all."
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"We're competing against other great cities: Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. That's why it's important that we all join together on the final path to Copenhagen. Having the support of President Obama is key."
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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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"I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too."
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"In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization."
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"Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses."
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"United States and Coalition forces will remain in Iraq and will operate under American command as part of a multinational force authorized by the United Nations."
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"If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election!"
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"I can assure you that everything I say and do has the complete approval of the Fuehrer and that I would not say or do anything that does not have his approval."
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"My name is Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you."
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"Statism is an unnatural disaster."
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"We have no stronger ally anywhere in the world than Israel."
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"Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls."
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"Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and could not comprehend that such an assessment-which would yield a monstrous toll if accurately conducted on a global scale-might perhaps be a proper task in the United States. At the same level of integrity, disciplined Soviet intellectuals are horrified over real or alleged American crimes, but perceive their own only as benevolent intent gone awry, or errors of an earlier day, now overcome; the comparison is inexact and unfair, since Soviet intellectuals can plead fear as an excuse for their services to state violence."
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"If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime."
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"Look, part of the whole technique of disempowering people is to make sure that the real agents of change fall out of history, and are never recognized in the culture for what they are. So it's necessary to distort history and make it look as if Great Men did everything - that's part of how you teach people they can't do anything, they're helpless, they just have to wait for some Great Man to come along and do it for them."
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"Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes."
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"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."
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"The goal and meaning of individual life (which is the only real life) no longer lie in individual development but in the policy of the State, which is thrust upon the individual from outside and consists in the execution of an abstract idea which ultimately tends to attract all life to itself."
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"It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself."
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"If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you."
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"If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions."
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"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign."
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"The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant."
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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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"If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement."
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"I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't."
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"It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it."
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"All government - indeed every human benefit and enjoyment every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter."
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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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"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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"We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation."
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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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"The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won."
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"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector."
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