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Politics Quotes
"China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does."
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"Politics in America is the binding secular religion."
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"I believe we've spent many years trying to bring about talks which have all the Parties in Northern Ireland involved so that there'd be inclusive talks."
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"The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well."
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"So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned."
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"Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins."
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"Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments."
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"No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplicable delay in the advent of help from the loyal States."
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"I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America."
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"The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion."
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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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"Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder."
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"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
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"Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics."
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"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."
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"All right, I will read what's in my pocket."
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"The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!"
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"The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.'"
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"There was no testimony of conspiracy - Oswald's efforts to get in touch with the Soviets and with the Cuban Fair Play groups in New York were rebuffed, rebuffed at every step."
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"I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington."
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"There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory."
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"The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics, adults and politicians do more finger-pointing and play more games than children ever do. Too often are we rooting for the pride of a team rather than the good of the nation."
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"I asked a couple of months ago if anyone would like to start picketing the gas stations."
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"I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people."
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"We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards."
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"They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories."
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"I find it odd that there's such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions."
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"You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example."
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"As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%."
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"To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary."
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"We've lost sight of our role in the region and our view of our colleagues in the region."
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"Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects."
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"In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions."
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