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Politics Quotes
"For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is."
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"I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested."
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"I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag."
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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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"It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments."
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"In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn."
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"Every town has become a border town and every State has become a border State."
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"We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands."
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"Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed."
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"When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses."
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"Once again, we see the Bush administration paying for its failed policies by cutting funds to vital public services and jeopardizing more American jobs."
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"Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems."
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"The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited."
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"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."
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"Politics and war are remarkably similar situations."
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"Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins."
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"Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments."
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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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"We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law."
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"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."
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"Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end."
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"Once the anchor of reason has been cut, one's craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler."
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"If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights."
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"I was very productive as a senator for my state."
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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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"If he wants their labor, let them go to work, without regard to politics."
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"I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I'm excited about it and I think it can even pass next year."
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"The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale."
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"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
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"There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization."
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"Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition."
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"War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules."
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"Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door."
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