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Politics Quotes
"So for mutual interest, I do want American presence in this region."
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"We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay."
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"We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress."
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"A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy."
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"I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active."
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"The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo)."
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"I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic."
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"Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect."
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"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied."
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"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."
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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
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"With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes."
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"We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees."
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"So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in."
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"War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means."
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"I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics."
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"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry."
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"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
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"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
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"As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair."
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"The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq."
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"I'd just as soon not get into a discussion about Jane and her politics. I'd just as soon stick to what we're here for, the picture."
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"Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia."
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"I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are."
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"I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received."
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"Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. History has stopped. Nothing exists except in an endless present in which the Party is always right."
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"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views."
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"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end."
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"With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land."
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"I don't necessarily believe there's a message in the fact that I'm an African-American Republican. I think there is a message that America as a whole, we are now awake. We are looking at a political construct and we're fairly disappointed. I think the message is no matter where you come from in this country, there is great potential."
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"Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom."
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"Without alienation, there can be no politics."
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"I believe politicians should always remain realistic."
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"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."
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"Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs."
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