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Politics Quotes
"I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks."
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"One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state."
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"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
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"There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want."
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"The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on."
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"But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral."
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"I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for."
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"Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families."
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"It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it."
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"The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics."
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"Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors."
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"If you say you're a unifier, you expect and usually get applause. I'm a divider. Politics is division by definition, if there was no disagreement there would be no politics. The illusion of unity isn't worth having, and is anyways unattainable."
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"The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible."
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"Communists have committed great crimes but at least they have not stood aside like an established society and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate."
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"Democracy is a poor system, the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method."
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"Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression."
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"On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!"
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"The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does."
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"I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America."
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"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."
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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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"I am looking forward to the departure of the corrupt Obama administration in 2017."
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"Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face."
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"Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia."
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"I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy."
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"We always have to blame our failures on somebody else, and dictatorships always need an external enemy to bind their followers together. As the man said, for every complex problem there's a simple solution, and it's wrong."
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"He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great."
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"Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison."
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"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector."
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"In my country we go to prison first and then become President."
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"We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure."
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"While there are many influences on gas prices in America, I believe the passage of a national energy bill will help relieve this burden on our country."
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"I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister."
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"Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't."
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"When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression."
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"That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today."
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"I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right."
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"The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families."
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"To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different."
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