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Politics Quotes
"You're only lonely if you're not there for you."
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"Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win."
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"Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They're organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations."
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"This position of this Northern party brought about the troubles of 1850, and the political excitement of 1854."
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"Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for."
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"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."
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"We are drifting into some ugly parallels here, and if I'd written this kind of thing two years ago I'd pick up the New York Times and see myself mangled all over the Op-Ed page... And then beaten into a bloody coma the next evening by some hired thugs in an alley behind the National Press Building....."
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"I am looking forward to the departure of the corrupt Obama administration in 2017."
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"A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sense held good in everyday life and in certain exact sciences, but could be disregarded by the politician, the historian, and the sociologist. Already there are countless people who would think it scandalous to falsify a scientific text-book, but would see nothing wrong in falsifying an historical fact."
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"The important aspect as we look at this budget, and as we look at previous budgets, is the budget system - what I'm trying to get at is changing budgeting itself in Wisconsin."
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"The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive."
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"The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing. It is like saying that because a man can only walk about on two legs, therefore he never walks about except to buy shoes and stockings."
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"Fascism is not the result of dictatorship."
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"It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing liberty.The compromise eventually made was one of the most interesting and even curious cases in history. It was decided to do everything that had ever been denounced in Socialism, and nothing that had ever been desired in it, we proceeded to prove that it was possible to sacrifice liberty without gaining equality.In short, people decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad."
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"Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people, anyway. For years I've regarded his very existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad."
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"I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes."
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"Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser."
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"You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest."
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"The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families."
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"I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested."
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"I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do."
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"'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide."
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"In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn."
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"If Russia rises, it means that the USA falls down."
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"I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together is the lowest it has been in the last series of Presidents, even going back to Jimmy Carter. So I think the Bush administration is doing a good job."
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"If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind."
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"For me it is completely clear that our air bases in Germany would be available to the Americans."
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"I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs."
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"In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested."
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"To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary."
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"Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced."
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"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."
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"Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions."
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"Liberalism is Rationalism in politics."
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"Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!"
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