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Politics Quotes
"America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit."
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"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all."
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"Peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none."
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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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"So for mutual interest, I do want American presence in this region."
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"I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics."
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"A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets."
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"Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other."
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"I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active."
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"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied."
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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
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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 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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"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
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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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"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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"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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"The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof."
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"Without alienation, there can be no politics."
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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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"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants."
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"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
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"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it."
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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."
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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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"We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress."
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"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry."
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"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
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"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican."
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"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
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"It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people."
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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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"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
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"I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received."
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"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
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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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