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Politics Quotes


"I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on."


"What we have to do is to find a solution that the interests of the national teams are respecting the interests of the clubs. And also the clubs they shall respect the interests and the aspirations of national teams."


"We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure."


"Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company."


"I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years."


"The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those."


"The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct."


"The demonstrators in Ukraine will persevere and succeed, or grow tired, cold and fade."


"I am going to do everything I can to clear my name."


"It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America."


"We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen."


"Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed."


"All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up."


"I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions."


"The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon."


"Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics."



"But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes."



"I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in a Clinton candidacy or whether she really is something unique and has something to offer apart from her husband."


"If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election!"


"Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face."


"The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."


"Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market."


"The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration."


"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion."


"We definitely need to get the excitement back."


"We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class."


"The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics."



"But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created."


"We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq."


"Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization."


"Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics."


"In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships."


"Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement."
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