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Politics Quotes
"When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas."
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"Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote."
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"Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up."
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"Finally, we need more Border Patrol agents. Although Congress has already tripled the number of Border Patrol agents since the late 1980s, more are still needed."
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"We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes."
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"The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters."
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"Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens."
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"A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders."
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"Well, he can't be dumb, I mean, because he's been president for four years and he's president again, so you're going to get caught out if you're really bad, aren't you? Unless millions and millions of Americans are dumb."
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"For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him."
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"I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress."
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"Look at what the Omar of Qatar is doing, for example - the King of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain. There are reform movements taking place, efforts to broaden the political participation of the populations of the region."
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"Government in its infancy had no regular and permanent form. For want of a sufficient fund of philosophy and experience, men could see no further than the present inconveniences, and never thought of providing remedies for future ones, but in proportion as they arose."
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"Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression."
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"The more you read about politics the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other."
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"When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics."
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"As long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role in production is simply that of ancillary tools, then there are striking elements of coercion and oppression that make talk of democracy very limited, if meaningful."
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"All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now."
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"There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through."
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"Of course, peace treaties are very attractive to those who sign them. They strengthen one's prestige with the electorate. But the time will come when the names of these public figures will be erased from history. Nobody will remember them any longer. But the Western peoples will have to pay heavily for these overtrusting agreements."
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"Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge."
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"Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S."
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"Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit."
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"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power."
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"One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state."
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"Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form."
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"What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production."
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"It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another."
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"I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before."
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"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."
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"Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't seem to matter."
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"Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one."
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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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"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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"I'm a results-oriented person and my Senate record shows that."
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