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Politics Quotes
"I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year."
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"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
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"I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not."
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"A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!"
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"And when memory failed and written records were falsified-when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested."
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"Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks."
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"Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope."
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"The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive."
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"I'm a results-oriented person and my Senate record shows that."
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"It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions."
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"I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology-that progress comes through class struggle, often violent. It led to the widespread belief that the only way to achieve justice was to hurry this dialectical process along, and allow the oppressed working classes to carry out their struggle against their bourgeois oppressors."
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"I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes."
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"It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth."
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"It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'"
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"I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott."
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"I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested."
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"I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby."
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"Americans are sick and tired of political gamesmanship."
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"I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project."
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"Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins."
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"In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations."
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"We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law."
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"Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German."
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"This drug coverage program was clearly designed by Republicans in Congress to serve the interests of the drug and insurance industries. America's seniors were an afterthought."
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"For me it is completely clear that our air bases in Germany would be available to the Americans."
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"This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored to save their amendments for the floor. Then, when we got here, we were told no amendments could be accepted."
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"And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test."
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"I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
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"Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!"
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"The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries."
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"Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy."
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"Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians."
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"Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity."
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"I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment."
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