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Politics Quotes
"I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality."
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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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"I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed."
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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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"The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39."
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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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"Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up."
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"As I discovered, even the governor of a major state who holds pro-life views can be denied a hearing at his party's convention without the national media protesting it."
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"I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions."
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"The last four years have not diluted the memory or weakened the resolve of our citizens. Four years later, our hearts still hurt for the families whose loved ones were murdered that day."
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"Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens."
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"We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited."
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"Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is."
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"First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy."
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"First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle."
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"The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics."
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"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."
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"As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty."
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"I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress."
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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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"Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?"
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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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"When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics."
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"If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime."
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"The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope."
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"It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago."
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"Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak."
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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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"There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through."
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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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"The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming."
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"Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge."
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"We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission."
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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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"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power."
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"I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics."
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"Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns."
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"Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast and loose with national security: The case against Hillary Clinton for president is open-and-shut. Of course, against all these considerations you might prefer the newly fashionable and more media-weighty notion that if you don't show her enough appreciation, and after all she's done for us, she may cry."
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