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Politics Quotes
"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
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"And I'm very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election."
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"It is never too late to regain our credibility around the world."
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"Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors."
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"Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely."
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"The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we are doing all this is so we can respond correctly to what is reported to be a major catastrophe on the African continent."
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"The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible."
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"There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic."
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"As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants."
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"It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out."
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"The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; type people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power."
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"There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster."
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"So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?"
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"Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001."
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"I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest."
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"I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course."
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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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"I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. This vulgar method, which is now the norm and the standard in much non-Left journalism as well, is designed to have the effect of making any noisy moron into a master analyst."
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"The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics."
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"U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter."
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"We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation."
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"As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending."
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"Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis."
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"I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things."
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"Mr. Dingell is just plain Mr. Dingell. And when he gets to be chairman of the Commerce Committee, he doesn't let it go to his head. However, he thinks he would be a very, very good chairman."
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"I realize it's probably best to keep my politics to myself."
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"First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights."
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"I didn't want to engage in a campaign where I was defending myself on those issues at every turn, so I just decided that I'd switch and run as a Republican."
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"Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict."
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"Democratic leaders always seem to blame America first."
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"I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed."
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"As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada."
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"Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States' own safety, security, and economy."
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"International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable."
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"Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term."
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"He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls."
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"I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute."
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"And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test."
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