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Politics Quotes
"I've spent the last year listening to Americans, and the state of the union that George W. Bush lives in is very different from the state that most hardworking Americans are living in."
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"Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole."
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"Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish."
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"Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers."
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"The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking."
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"Don't divide the world into "them" and "us." Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours."
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"Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one."
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"Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks."
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"We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor."
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"I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year."
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"I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not."
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"This is my first term. I was told it was going to be an exciting term, and a lot of things would be done, and I cannot think about something more exciting than save Social Security."
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"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."
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"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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"George Bush is trying to play it both ways."
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"But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things."
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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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"It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions."
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"I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded."
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"It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth."
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"I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign."
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"I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it."
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"So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics."
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"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'"
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"It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'"
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"I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents."
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"Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open."
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"It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments."
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"We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands."
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"Americans are sick and tired of political gamesmanship."
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"Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government."
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"China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does."
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"Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins."
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"In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations."
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"A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics."
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"There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization."
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