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Politics Quotes
"A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets."
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"War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means."
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"Patriotism, that least discerning of pas."
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"As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise."
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"After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate."
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"I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic."
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"Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside."
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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
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"We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory."
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"There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America."
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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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"Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike."
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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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"One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to."
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"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future."
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"Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none."
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"Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it."
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"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied."
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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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"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican."
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"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
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"You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe."
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"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all."
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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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"We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress."
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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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"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians."
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"I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received."
50
"The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof."
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"The real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development."
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"The state exists for man,not man for the state.The same may be said ofscience. These are old phrases,coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value .I would hesitate to repeat them,were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten,especially in these days of organization and stereotypes."
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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."
46
"Without alienation, there can be no politics."
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"At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else."
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"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
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"A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail."
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