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Politics Quotes
"The more you read about politics the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other."
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"There is no room at all for independent enterprise under any variety of State Socialism. Prices are to be regulated authoritatively; authority is to fix what is to be produced, and how, and in what quantities. There is to be no speculation, no 'excessive' profit, no loss. There is to be no innovation unless it be decreed by authority. The official is to direct and supervise everything."
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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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"The better organized the state, the duller its humanity."
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"Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage."
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"Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days."
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"The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side."
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"In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution."
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"I do not intend, we do not intend, that any party shall survive, if we can help it, that will lay the confiscating hand upon Americans in the interest of England or of Europe."
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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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"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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"I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me."
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"You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for wealth creation."
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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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"The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them."
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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 just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran."
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"Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
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"Fourth, we might have declared an embargo against the shipping from American ports of any merchandise to either one of these governments that persisted in maintaining its military zone."
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"If Russia rises, it means that the USA falls down."
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"I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together is the lowest it has been in the last series of Presidents, even going back to Jimmy Carter. So I think the Bush administration is doing a good job."
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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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"Politics and war are remarkably similar situations."
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"Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics."
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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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"Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself."
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"The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale."
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"I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration."
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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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"Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally."
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"If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction."
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"I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose."
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"In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization."
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