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Politics Quotes
"China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does."
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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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"We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts."
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"To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary."
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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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"Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door."
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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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"Bite us once, shame on the dog; bite us repeatedly, shame on us for allowing it."
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"I got politics and economics moving and then others took over."
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"It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics."
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"And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different."
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"France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina."
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"Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism."
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"The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger."
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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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"Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence."
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"Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable."
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"Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers."
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"One of the things that you have trouble with politicians, particularly in Washington, is when you get mad at them and you can't touch them; you can't punch them; you can't yell at them."
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"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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"Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement."
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"No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil."
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"The government wields a heavy hand, which is often used in an underhanded way."
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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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"A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence."
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"The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations."
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"South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination."
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"Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it."
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"My name is Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you."
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"Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them."
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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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"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."
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"I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly clear that the State of Florida does not want drilling to negatively affect its beaches and shores."
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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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"The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship."
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"There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power."
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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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"There might be some serious fun in politics."
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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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"No, what's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics--the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions, our seeming inability to build a working concensus to tackle any big problem."
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