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Politics Quotes



"We have views on social issues that may seem to some that we are hard-line Tories. However our economics policies and our opposition to the process called globalisation could be considered by some to place us on the far-left of conventional politics."


"Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism."



"At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over."


"I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less."


"I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment."


"Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America."


"Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers."


"No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil."


"I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions."


"I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of."


"A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening."



"You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that."


"The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America."



"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."


"There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do."


"A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman."


"The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity."


"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."


"America is not better off than it was $1.8 trillion dollars ago."



"South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination."


"Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning."


"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."



"As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty."



"My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics."


"The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas; no feelings, only interests. In politics, you don't kill a man, you remove an obstacle, that's all."



"Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?"


"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."



"There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power."


"Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue."


"The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it."


"True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with morals is no art at all; for morals cuts the Gordian knot which politics cannot solve as soon as the two are in conflict."


"There might be some serious fun in politics."


"The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming."


"The politics of judges is getting to be red hot."


"We have a responsibility to make sure that the limited resources we have are spent efficiently and effectively and that programs achieve their mission."


"My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe."


"Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland."


"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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