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Politics Quotes
"I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed."
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"That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards."
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"All wars are sacred, he said. 'To those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight? But, no matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles. But so few people ever realize it. Their ears are too full of bugles and drums and the fine words from stay-at-home orators. Sometimes the rallying cry is 'save the Tomb of Christ from the Heathen!' Sometimes it's 'down with Popery!' and sometimes 'Liberty!' and sometimes 'Cotton, Slavery and States' Rights!"
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"There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative."
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"Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians."
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"Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers."
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"I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword."
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"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate."
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"I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose."
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"The last four years have not diluted the memory or weakened the resolve of our citizens. Four years later, our hearts still hurt for the families whose loved ones were murdered that day."
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"I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers."
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"War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man."
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"Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is."
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"Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is-- so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group."
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"Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose."
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"It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find."
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"I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough."
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"The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope."
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"That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic."
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"Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them."
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"Every day President Bush and Congress refuse to fulfill their obligation to special ed is another day Wisconsin property taxpayers are stuck with the bill. It's unfair, irresponsible and must stop."
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"In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties."
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"A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars."
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"Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right."
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"Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes."
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"Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?"
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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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"The Republican Party is in charge. They've been charge of the Congress and spending for 10 years."
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"A culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring."
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"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
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"Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without."
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"I do not intend, we do not intend, that any party shall survive, if we can help it, that will lay the confiscating hand upon Americans in the interest of England or of Europe."
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"The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does."
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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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"Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies."
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"Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope."
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"Politicians were famous for double-speak and were consummate liars. That's why George W. Bush had to be their favorite president. It's easier to commit a fraud when the actor believes his lie to the point of a conviction."
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"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals."
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"I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young children in America."
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