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Politics Quotes
"The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians."
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"What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party."
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"Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate."
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"Unfair trade agreements, passed by both Republicans and Democrats, have sent millions of jobs to other countries. We need to stop this hemorrhaging and find ways for American workers to compete in the new market."
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"Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules."
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"My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States."
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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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"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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"I for one believe that we absolutely need an improved guest worker program, one that holds immigrants and employers accountable and yet still enables us to get a crop out of the ground in south Georgia."
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"Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong."
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"Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized."
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"The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise."
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"A president who has incited violence inspires citizens towards hate and violence."
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"Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia."
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"It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day."
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"We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute."
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"The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs."
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"Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole."
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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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"Of course, peace treaties are very attractive to those who sign them. They strengthen one's prestige with the electorate. But the time will come when the names of these public figures will be erased from history. Nobody will remember them any longer. But the Western peoples will have to pay heavily for these overtrusting agreements."
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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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"NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves."
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"A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars."
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"I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?"
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"Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it."
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"If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations."
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"Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror."
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"In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded."
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"The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant."
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"A [national] flag has no real significance for peaceful uses."
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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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"All government - indeed every human benefit and enjoyment every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter."
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"Liberties aren't given, they are taken."
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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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"I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university."
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"Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin."
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"The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information."
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"Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children."
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"The thing that strikes me more and more, is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time. I don't mean merely that controversies are acrimonious. They ought to be that when they are on serious subjects. I mean that almost nobody seems to feel that an opponent deserves a fair hearing or that the objective truth matters as long as you can score a neat debating point."
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"The important aspect as we look at this budget, and as we look at previous budgets, is the budget system - what I'm trying to get at is changing budgeting itself in Wisconsin."
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"In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution."
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