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Politics Quotes
"The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many."
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"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
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"Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council."
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"Nuclear weapons kill Americans - they don't kill Republicans or Democrats - they kill Americans."
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"Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements."
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"Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it."
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"If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?"
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"By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties."
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"Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward."
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"As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community."
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"There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through."
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"We can play politics, or we can reduce crime."
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"The politics of judges is getting to be red hot."
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"Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?"
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"I'm not giving the president a blank check, period."
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"Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction."
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"Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one."
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"If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep."
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"I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics."
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"My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses."
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"The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning."
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"We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics."
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"I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for."
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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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"We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when we do have standards, even these standards are required to be voluntary."
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"The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot."
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"The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics."
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"Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame."
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"Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected."
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"The Republican Party is in charge. They've been charge of the Congress and spending for 10 years."
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"It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another."
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"Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns."
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"A culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring."
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"If you say you're a unifier, you expect and usually get applause. I'm a divider. Politics is division by definition, if there was no disagreement there would be no politics. The illusion of unity isn't worth having, and is anyways unattainable."
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"I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas."
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"The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many."
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"The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world."
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"The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does."
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"Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring."
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