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Politics Quotes
"I think the recovery hasn't been stronger because the hole that was dug for President Obama by the Bush administration was far worse than anybody could imagine, first of all."
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"Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software."
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"Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown."
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"That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards."
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"Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars."
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"We need a reform of the Security Council. It must be perceived as truly representative by all the 191 member states, to uphold the credibility and legitimacy of the UN as the main political arena."
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"I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today."
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"The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth."
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"The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration."
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"This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director."
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"America is not better off than it was $1.8 trillion dollars ago."
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"Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is-- so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group."
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"The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer."
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"Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose."
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"If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed."
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"A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them."
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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 vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people's lives."
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"Politicians are no different than the rest of the public."
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"Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them."
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"Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue."
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"Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America."
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"Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family context and in all other intimate relationships. It is that political movement which most radically addresses the person " the personal " citing the need for the transformation of self, of relationships, so that we might be better able to act in a revolutionary manner, challenging and resisting domination, transforming the world outside the self."
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"My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe."
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"Socialists seem to think George Orwell's 1984 is a suggestion, or at least are unashamed of mimicking the methods of the totalitarian state Orwell depicted. Libertarians know it to be a warning, and a government that micro-manages all aspects of humanity an intolerable reality."
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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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"Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland."
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"Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium of custom of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason."
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"Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right."
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"The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many."
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"Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression."
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"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."
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"I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary."
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"There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic."
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