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Politics Quotes
"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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"I have seen the times when the grassroots has moved the Congress. We listen way more often to our constituents than the lobbyists. And the grassroots are going to have to do it."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced."
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"The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might."
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"If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore."
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"As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?"
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"The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America."
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"I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed."
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"Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition."
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"War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules."
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"John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly."
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"The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget."
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"I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States."
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"To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution."
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"And when it is done, we ought to follow the example by disarming ourselves."
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"Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future."
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"It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America."
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"Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality."
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"Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness."
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"And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians."
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"One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means."
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"I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality."
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"Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people."
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"So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris."
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"The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over."
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"When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor."
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"I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster."
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"The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant."
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"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."
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