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Politics Quotes
"By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do."
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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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"The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign."
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"The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas; no feelings, only interests. In politics, you don't kill a man, you remove an obstacle, that's all."
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"I think it is dangerous to confuse the idea of democracy with elections. Just because you have elections doesn't mean you're a democratic country. They're a very vitally important part of a democracy. But there are other things that ought to function as checks and balances. If elections are the only thing that matter, then people are going to resort to anything to win that election."
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"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."
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"Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes."
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"There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics."
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"Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S."
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"Statism is political fashion.Individual liberty is eternal."
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"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
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"The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault."
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"The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform."
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"The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible."
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"At the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of revolution, was Combeferre, representing its philosophy. The difference between logic and philosophy is that one can decide upon war, whereas the other can only be fulfilled by peace."
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"Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They're organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations."
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"I think Michael Moore is loathsome, though, not because he dislikes Bush, but because he seems to dislike America."
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"So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?"
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"Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset."
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"I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election."
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"Fascism is not the result of dictatorship."
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"I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers."
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"Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser."
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"If you want to be lied to, all you have to do is believe everything that the government tells you."
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"You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest."
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"Israel has always been and must always be America's strongest ally."
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"Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody."
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"I realize it's probably best to keep my politics to myself."
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"'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide."
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"Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors."
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"Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving."
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"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."
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"The President and I agree that Social Security needs to be preserved so that we can ensure that all Americans receive the retirement benefits they've been promised. But we disagree as to how best to fix the system."
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"There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought."
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