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Politics Quotes
"To say that an Orgota government fell means, of course, only that one group of Commensals replaced another group of Commensals in the controlling offices of the Thirty-Three. Some shadows got shorter and some longer, as they say in Karhide."
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"In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations should establish total prohibition on human cloning as well."
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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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"The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them."
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"When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies."
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"The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau."
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"Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics."
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"I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby."
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"When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again."
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"Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience."
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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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"Politics and war are remarkably similar situations."
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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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"Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out."
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"In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons."
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"I am maintaining my schedule of commuting to Washington, D.C. each week from Oregon so that I can spend my weekends and days when we are not in session traveling to communities throughout my district."
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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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"What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge."
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"I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that."
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"I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people."
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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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"The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might."
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"If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore."
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"Clinton's attempt to socialize healthcare was the second most disgusting thing he did in the oval office. I can't remember was the first thing was."
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"I had hoped that the current presidential campaign debates might educate the public as to what is really involved in the ongoing controversy over campaign financing."
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"Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State."
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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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"Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty."
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"It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes."
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"Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great."
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"Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown."
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"I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here."
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"Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy."
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"Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are."
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"If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction."
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"There have been major disagreements within the European Union."
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"I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today."
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"There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now."
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