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Politics Quotes
"The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants."
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"I think the American people have been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis have taken to elections and 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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"We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq."
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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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"Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems."
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"Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don't. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint. I feel the same about anything I'm doing."
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"I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest."
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"My message tonight is a simple one - the journey is getting exciting and this great state is on the move."
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"Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way."
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"Politics and war are remarkably similar situations."
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"I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave."
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"There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."
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"As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics."
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"Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security."
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"We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics."
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"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
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"I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations."
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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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"Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders."
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"This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics."
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"Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end."
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"We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better."
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"I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seems to be as committed to guaranteeing democratic participation in this country as we seem to be in other countries."
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"In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons."
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"But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal characteristics."
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"Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me."
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"I was very productive as a senator for my state."
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"One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless."
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"English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen."
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"What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge."
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"Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation."
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"I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that."
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"My belief is the majority of people in politics are just interested in pursuing this career in politics, and doing what's necessary to get themselves re-elected. And if that happens to coincide with the public good, great. But if it doesn't, the public good loses out."
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"He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls."
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"Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything."
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"As for the majority, it is not so much race as it is political affiliation that really divides it today. What was once an issue of physical difference is now one of intellectual difference. Men have yet to master disagreeing without flashing all their frustrations that come with it; the conservative will throw half-truths while the liberal will throw insults. Combine these and what do you get? A dishonest mockery of a country."
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"In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested."
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"The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much."
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"Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics."
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"I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I'm excited about it and I think it can even pass next year."
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"Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots."
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