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Politics Quotes
"All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States."
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"That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way."
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"Finally, we need more Border Patrol agents. Although Congress has already tripled the number of Border Patrol agents since the late 1980s, more are still needed."
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"We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise."
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"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."
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"We definitely need to get the excitement back."
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"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."
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"The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity."
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"If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook."
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"May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany."
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"I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up."
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"Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam."
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"If you want to be loved by everyone, don't go into politics."
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"We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once."
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"That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic."
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"All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now."
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"In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance."
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"With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land."
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"It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system."
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"What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production."
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"The Republican Party is in charge. They've been charge of the Congress and spending for 10 years."
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"Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spontaneity which laws inevitably suppress. And you cannot govern without laws. Your laws eventually must replace morality, replace conscience, replace even the religion by which you think to govern. Sacred ritual must spring from praise and holy yearnings which hammer out a significant morality. Government, on the other hand, is a cultural organism particularly attractive to doubts, questions and contentions. I see the day coming when ceremony must take the place of faith and symbolism replaces morality."
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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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"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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"In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power."
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"We always have to blame our failures on somebody else, and dictatorships always need an external enemy to bind their followers together. As the man said, for every complex problem there's a simple solution, and it's wrong."
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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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"I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty."
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"I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can."
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"It is not only all right but necessary to stand up to George Bush."
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"I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right."
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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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"To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different."
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"Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found."
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"All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as everyone scraps for limited federal dollars."
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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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"I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations."
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"Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out."
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"Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end."
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