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Politics Quotes
"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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"There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on."
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"Americans who may be going to the largest embassy we've ever had."
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"He was abusing Big Brother, he was denouncing the dictatorship of the Party, he was demanding the immediate conclusion of peace with Eurasia, he was advocating freedom of speech, freedom of the Press, freedom of assembly, freedom of thought, he was crying hysterically that the revolution had been betrayed - and all this in rapid polysyllabic speech which was a sort of parody of the habitual style of the orators of the Party, and even contained Newspeak words: more Newspeak words, indeed, than any Party member would normally use in real life."
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"That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards."
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"Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable."
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"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."
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"Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally."
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"That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics."
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"Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons."
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"Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism."
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"There are no more liberals They've all been mugged."
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"I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today."
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"Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up."
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"I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of."
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"A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening."
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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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"One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are."
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"The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration."
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"War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man."
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"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion."
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"We definitely need to get the excitement back."
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"A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman."
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"First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy."
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"If it were up to the candidates for president on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars. They would have let the auto industry in America go down the tubes."
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"I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then."
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"We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes."
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"The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics."
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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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"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
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"A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them."
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"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers."
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"Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?"
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"It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago."
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"The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible."
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