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Politics Quotes
"There was no testimony of conspiracy - Oswald's efforts to get in touch with the Soviets and with the Cuban Fair Play groups in New York were rebuffed, rebuffed at every step."
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"I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent."
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"He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls."
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"And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test."
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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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"They have had three years to get a resolution and they failed. Both of these guys have failed."
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"I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states."
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"On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers."
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"The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple."
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"Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions."
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"Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State."
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"Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions."
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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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"There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose."
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"Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace."
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"And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet."
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"I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed."
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"Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie."
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"I played by the rules of politics as I found them."
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"Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state."
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"Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry."
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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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"Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians."
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"I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America."
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"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."
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"We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena."
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"I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me."
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"One of the things that you have trouble with politicians, particularly in Washington, is when you get mad at them and you can't touch them; you can't punch them; you can't yell at them."
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"Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer."
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"That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way."
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"Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote."
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"I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions."
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"The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it."
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"I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America."
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