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Politics Quotes
"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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"And American voters understand that if we want to keep fighting to move in the new - in a new direction, we've got a long way to go. And we need to make sure we continue with Democrats being in the majority."
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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 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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"Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring."
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"As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants."
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"I am looking forward to the departure of the corrupt Obama administration in 2017."
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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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"To err is human. To blame someone else is politics."
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"I could have had class. I could have been a contender."
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"Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001."
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"But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things."
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"The enemy of my enemy is my friend, men said, but the enemy of my friend is my enemy."
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"It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions."
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"In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations should establish total prohibition on human cloning as well."
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"Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves."
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"This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first."
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"Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship."
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"I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded."
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"I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do."
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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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"If you 'don't do politics' , trust me - politics will do you."
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"The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy."
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"I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it."
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"I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system."
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"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
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"The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics."
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"Today we're faced with over 500 casualties, a cost of over $200 billion. And it could rise - the casualties could go into thousands and the cost could go over half a trillion - if we stay there for years."
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"Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes."
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"My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order."
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"On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech."
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"Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
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"We would like UN resolutions to be enforced, including on Iraq."
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"Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers."
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"The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered."
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"Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined."
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"I think Bush's immigration proposal is treason and he should be impeached."
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"Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis."
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