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Politics Quotes
"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
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"I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young children in America."
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"I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy."
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"Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism."
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"The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads."
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"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
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"Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters."
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"The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background."
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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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"You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for wealth creation."
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"The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink."
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"The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions."
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"First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined."
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"The views of the European Union are fully reflected in this text, particularly the key objective of the EU, namely vigorously to address the disarmament of Iraq and to do so within the framework of the UN Security Council."
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"It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined."
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"Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission."
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"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants."
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"While there are many influences on gas prices in America, I believe the passage of a national energy bill will help relieve this burden on our country."
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"Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO."
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"It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought - that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc - should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words."
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"In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural."
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"Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed."
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"We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view."
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"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour."
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"When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies."
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"Texans should not be taxed on our taxes."
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"We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress."
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"The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states."
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"I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign."
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"Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them."
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"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
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"Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000."
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"If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election."
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"Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend."
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"Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is."
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"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'"
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"With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others."
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"Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place."
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