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Politics Quotes
"Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it."
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"The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries."
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"My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States."
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"I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress."
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"I think the recovery hasn't been stronger because the hole that was dug for President Obama by the Bush administration was far worse than anybody could imagine, first of all."
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"I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration."
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"On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics."
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"Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally."
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"We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena."
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"Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized."
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"One of the things that you have trouble with politicians, particularly in Washington, is when you get mad at them and you can't touch them; you can't punch them; you can't yell at them."
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"Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer."
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"Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement."
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"The government wields a heavy hand, which is often used in an underhanded way."
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"The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it."
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"Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law."
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"I don't know how a reporter would ever understand a politician. Your job is supposed to be about finding the truth and enlightening people. Right? A politician's job is about hiding the truth and fooling people. Right? You want us to be better informed so we get smarter. They think we're dumb and it's to their advantage to keep us that way."
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"We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class."
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"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."
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"The more powerful the powerful appear the more invisible they become, said Armando. This used to work differently than now. In the old days it was said that the powerful merged with the divine and the divine was all that one saw. But now the powerful have merged with the shadow, really with death, and when you encounter them they are really hard to see."
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"I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up."
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"The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them."
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"Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that."
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"The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign."
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"Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides."
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"The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected. In reality it is only a camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it."
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"There is no room at all for independent enterprise under any variety of State Socialism. Prices are to be regulated authoritatively; authority is to fix what is to be produced, and how, and in what quantities. There is to be no speculation, no 'excessive' profit, no loss. There is to be no innovation unless it be decreed by authority. The official is to direct and supervise everything."
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"No, what's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics--the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions, our seeming inability to build a working concensus to tackle any big problem."
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"The better organized the state, the duller its humanity."
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"There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics."
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"The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy."
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"In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy."
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"The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault."
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"I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country."
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"A [national] flag has no real significance for peaceful uses."
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"I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for."
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"The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform."
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"Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns."
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