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"There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism."
Karl Marx
"There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism."
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"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."
Helen Gahagan
"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."
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"Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects."
Lester B. Pearson
"Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects."
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"All politics is local."
Thomas P. O'Neill
"All politics is local."
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"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."
Sepp Blatter
"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."
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"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."
Dick Durbin
"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."
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"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."
Bennie Thompson
"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."
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"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."
Donald T. Regan
"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."
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"Opponents of cap and trade should be careful what they wish for."
Joshua A. Tucker
"Opponents of cap and trade should be careful what they wish for."
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"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."
Eric Cantor
"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."
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"The United States has to move very fast to even stand still."
John F. Kennedy
"The United States has to move very fast to even stand still."
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"The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct."
John Fiske
"The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct."
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"Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics."
Gerry Cooney
"Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics."
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"The demonstrators in Ukraine will persevere and succeed, or grow tired, cold and fade."
Bob Schaffer
"The demonstrators in Ukraine will persevere and succeed, or grow tired, cold and fade."
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"I do not separate France from Europe."
Lionel Jospin
"I do not separate France from Europe."
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"I am going to do everything I can to clear my name."
Michael Irvin
"I am going to do everything I can to clear my name."
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"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."
Dan Quayle
"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."
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"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."
Ken Mehlman
"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."
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"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."
Townsend Harris
"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."
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"All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up."
Martha Griffiths
"All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up."
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"I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions."
Judy Biggert
"I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions."
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"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."
Howard Dean
"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."
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"Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics."
Wendell Phillips
"Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics."
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"Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore."
Stendhal
"Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore."
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"But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes."
Robert Shea
"But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes."
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"It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose."
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"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."
Barbara Olson
"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."
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"If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election!"
Michele Bachmann
"If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election!"
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"Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face."
Thomas Sowell
"Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face."
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"Towns and cities throughout the United States have opened their hearts and homes to thousands of families displaced from their homes as a result of this horrific storm."
Jo Bonner
"Towns and cities throughout the United States have opened their hearts and homes to thousands of families displaced from their homes as a result of this horrific storm."
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"The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."
Edward Grey
"The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."
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"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."
Cynthia McKinney
"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."
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"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."
Samuel P. Huntington
"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."
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"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion."
Richard M. Nixon
"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion."
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"We definitely need to get the excitement back."
Robert Mondavi
"We definitely need to get the excitement back."
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"Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised."
Herbert Croly
"Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised."
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"We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class."
Clara Zetkin
"We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class."
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"You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime."
Barack Obama
"You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime."
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"The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics."
Ed Miliband
"The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics."
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"I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that."
Moira Kelly
"I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that."
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"A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism."
Karl Marx
"A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism."
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"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."
Fred F. Fielding
"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."
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"We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq."
Sam Brownback
"We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq."
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"Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store."
Lyndon B. Johnson
"Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store."
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"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."
Christian Lous Lange
"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."
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"By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry."
Jack Dempsey
"By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry."
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"Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics."
George J. Mitchell
"Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics."
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"In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships."
Alexis de Tocqueville
"In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships."
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"Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others."
Sallust
"Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others."
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"Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement."
Edmund Burke
"Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement."
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