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Politics Quotes
"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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"Sonnet: Political GreatnessNor happiness, nor majesty, nor fame,Nor peace, nor strength, nor skill in arms or arts,Shepherd those herds whom tyranny makes tame;Verse echoes not one beating of their hearts,History is but the shadow of their shame,Art veils her glass, or from the pageant startsAs to oblivion their blind millions fleet,Staining that Heaven with obscene imageryOf their own likeness. What are numbers knitBy force or custom? Man who man would be,Must rule the empire of himself; in itMust be supreme, establishing his throneOn vanquished will, quelling the anarchyOf hopes and fears, being himself alone."
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"India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there."
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"The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing."
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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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"Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions that are used to them, but which overpower, ruin and intoxicate the weak and delicate who are not suited for them."
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"Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed."
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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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"As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment."
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"Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam."
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"Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in."
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"The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious."
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"The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."
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"I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election."
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"We conservatives don't have a corner on saying 'no'. We're just the ones who say it when it's the right thing to say."
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"Let fascism find not even a single passage to power or else that poisonous snake will infiltrate into the every vital corner of the country and kill the future of the nation!"
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"First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined."
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"Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship."
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"I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends."
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"We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course."
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"Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't."
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"When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression."
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
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"The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops."
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"And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation."
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"British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target."
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"Once again, we see the Bush administration paying for its failed policies by cutting funds to vital public services and jeopardizing more American jobs."
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"So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida."
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"Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics."
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"If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws."
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"Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe."
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"George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech."
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"To meet the shortage of supplies from America, due to lack of shipping, the representatives of the different supply departments were constantly in search of available material and supplies in Europe."
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"Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future."
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"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"
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"The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics."
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"And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different."
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"I played by the rules of politics as I found them."
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"The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39."
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"And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so."
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"Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable."
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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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"You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo."
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"The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future."
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