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Politics Quotes
"You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for wealth creation."
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"Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO."
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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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"Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes."
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"The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky."
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"The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered."
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"I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott."
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"Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish."
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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 was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag."
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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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"Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems."
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"Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don't. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint. I feel the same about anything I'm doing."
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"We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics."
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"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."
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"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."
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"Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end."
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"Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German."
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"There was no testimony of conspiracy - Oswald's efforts to get in touch with the Soviets and with the Cuban Fair Play groups in New York were rebuffed, rebuffed at every step."
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"If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics."
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"I asked a couple of months ago if anyone would like to start picketing the gas stations."
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"Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics."
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"Politics are not the task of a Christian."
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"He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it."
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"They have had three years to get a resolution and they failed. Both of these guys have failed."
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"We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up."
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"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
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"To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution."
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"Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality."
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"We also have to ask if we focusing on the most important priorities."
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"And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians."
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"The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over."
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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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"If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon."
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