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Politics Quotes


"We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once."


"The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress."


"And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination."


"I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars."


"Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides."


"So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less."


"I've spent the last year listening to Americans, and the state of the union that George W. Bush lives in is very different from the state that most hardworking Americans are living in."


"England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases."


"When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America's addiction to oil. You make the connection."


"The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure."


"Federal authorities do not have the manpower or the resources to protect America's international borders."


"You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job."


"Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers."


"Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy."


"Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents."



"Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live."


"I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president."


"The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression."


"We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission."


"As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them."


"I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us."


"In politics the choice is constantly between two evils."


"Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years."


"It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them."


"The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing."


"Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?"


"Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that."


"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."


"How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski."


"There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want."


"Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys."


"The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on."
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