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Politics Quotes
"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector."
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"I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me."
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"While there are many influences on gas prices in America, I believe the passage of a national energy bill will help relieve this burden on our country."
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"I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran."
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"First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that."
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"It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics."
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"Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him."
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"This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation."
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"The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to have, whose fault was it that there were communists were able to do so well down there, well, that wasn't the point."
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"The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!"
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"Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk."
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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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"Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen."
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"Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom."
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"The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel."
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"What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent."
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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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"We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings."
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"I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right."
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"Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence."
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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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"The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated."
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"Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining."
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"A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence."
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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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"John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign."
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"In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it."
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"When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers."
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"Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak."
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"The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible."
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"It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within."
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"If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all."
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"Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage."
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