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Politics Quotes
"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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"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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"Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect."
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"To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime."
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"It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics."
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"One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned."
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"I realize it's probably best to keep my politics to myself."
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"All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca."
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"I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do."
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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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"Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him."
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"When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever."
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"I have been to Iraq on a number of occasions. I was with the first group that went in."
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"In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions."
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"To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics."
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"It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments."
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"Every town has become a border town and every State has become a border State."
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"The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and all the world over. But the workers in Western Europe stand alone: this should never be forgotten in Russia."
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"I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny."
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"I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second."
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"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."
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"I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is."
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"The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads."
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"When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves."
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"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."
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"After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain."
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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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"Salazar's record is one of weakness; he hasn't been a good attorney general."
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"The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game."
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"When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses."
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