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Politics Quotes


"The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops."



"We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement."


"Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term."


"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."


"If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws."


"There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that. It's not specifically anti-Semitism, but it does manifest itself in anti-Semitism as well."


"To meet the shortage of supplies from America, due to lack of shipping, the representatives of the different supply departments were constantly in search of available material and supplies in Europe."


"Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future."


"Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality."


"In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare."


"Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it."


"The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics."


"The Green Party represents that majority point of view within the U.S."


"I played by the rules of politics as I found them."


"If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon."


"We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances."


"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate."


"The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon."



"Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law."


"Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws."


"I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers."


"We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class."


"As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views."


"It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis."


"Well, he can't be dumb, I mean, because he's been president for four years and he's president again, so you're going to get caught out if you're really bad, aren't you? Unless millions and millions of Americans are dumb."



"Statism is an unnatural disaster."


"It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find."


"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers."


"I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough."


"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt."


"The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere."


"Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us."
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