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Politics Quotes
"Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium."
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"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals."
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"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector."
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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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"Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship."
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"It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought - that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc - should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words."
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"We are ready to train new Iraqi forces outside Iraq. We did it in Abu Dhabi."
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"The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families."
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"I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher."
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"First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that."
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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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"The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads."
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"When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves."
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"After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain."
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"I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics."
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"To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race."
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"I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case."
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"If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind."
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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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"I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics."
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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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"The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel."
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"Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace."
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"I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right."
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"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."
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"Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great."
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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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"We're competing against other great cities: Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. That's why it's important that we all join together on the final path to Copenhagen. Having the support of President Obama is key."
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"I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too."
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"Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers."
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"It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America."
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"Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics."
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"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."
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"If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election!"
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"What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president."
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"The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the Nazi period would have been much more complicated, or almost impossible."
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"When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers."
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"Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls."
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"Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises in terms of their actual human costs, and could not comprehend that such an assessment-which would yield a monstrous toll if accurately conducted on a global scale-might perhaps be a proper task in the United States. At the same level of integrity, disciplined Soviet intellectuals are horrified over real or alleged American crimes, but perceive their own only as benevolent intent gone awry, or errors of an earlier day, now overcome; the comparison is inexact and unfair, since Soviet intellectuals can plead fear as an excuse for their services to state violence."
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