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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."
Francis Parker Yockey
"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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"Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects."
Michael K. Simpson
"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."
Jurgen Habermas
"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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"It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed."
Helen Dunmore
"It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed."
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"The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes."
Aristotle
"The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes."
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"Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."
Christopher Lasch
"Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."
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"Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics."
H. Rap Brown
"Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics."
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"I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country."
Larry Craig
"I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country."
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"Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe."
Agnes Smedley
"Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe."
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"Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body."
Joyce Cary
"Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body."
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"The first thing you need to run for President is a budget of around $20 million dollars a day."
Rob Walton
"The first thing you need to run for President is a budget of around $20 million dollars a day."
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"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
Charles de Gaulle
"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
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"It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics."
Roger Ebert
"It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics."
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"The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today."
Marty Meehan
"The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today."
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"Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?"
Sean Hannity
"Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?"
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"The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple."
Byron Dorgan
"The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple."
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"Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions."
John McCain
"Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions."
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"Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators."
Zell Miller
"Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators."
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"Politics swings like a pendulum."
Ed Gillespie
"Politics swings like a pendulum."
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"The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes."
Ed Gillespie
"The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes."
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"Despite claims by some to the contrary, we have heard numerous times in hearings and briefings by experts that existing technologies do not fully or effectively detect nuclear material."
John Linder
"Despite claims by some to the contrary, we have heard numerous times in hearings and briefings by experts that existing technologies do not fully or effectively detect nuclear material."
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"I do favor guest workers, H1B visas and student visas."
Jim Kolbe
"I do favor guest workers, H1B visas and student visas."
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"Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate."
Bob Ehrlich
"Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate."
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"The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican problem. It is an American problem."
J. D. Hayworth
"The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican problem. It is an American problem."
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"North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces."
Robin Hayes
"North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces."
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"Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State."
Heinrich Himmler
"Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State."
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"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
Mao Zedong
"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
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"But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike."
David Dinkins
"But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike."
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"In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away."
Lord Hailsham
"In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away."
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"It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics."
Lester Bangs
"It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics."
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"John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security."
Zell Miller
"John Kerry, who says he doesn't like outsourcing, wants to outsource our national security."
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"What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?"
Herman Gorter
"What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of any help whatsoever from any other class?"
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"I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election."
Warren G. Harding
"I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election."
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"Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!"
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
"Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!"
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"I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years."
Julian Bond
"I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years."
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"We also quoted Robert Luskin, Rove's attorney, acknowledging that Rove did speak to Cooper late on the week prior to the article coming out, which would have been July 10 or 11."
Michael Isikoff
"We also quoted Robert Luskin, Rove's attorney, acknowledging that Rove did speak to Cooper late on the week prior to the article coming out, which would have been July 10 or 11."
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"Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him."
Michael Isikoff
"Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him."
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"One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to thing in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years."
Jay Rockefeller
"One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to thing in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years."
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"Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace."
Paddy Ashdown
"Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace."
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"I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day the festival collapsed because the French, you know, film-makers raised the red flag in the festival and ended the festival."
Milos Forman
"I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day the festival collapsed because the French, you know, film-makers raised the red flag in the festival and ended the festival."
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"We welcome, we welcome this good cooperation between Russia and NATO."
Aleksander Kwasniewski
"We welcome, we welcome this good cooperation between Russia and NATO."
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"You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler."
Milos Forman
"You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler."
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"When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency."
Harry S. Truman
"When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency."
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"I continued to serve in Congress until 2001."
David Minge
"I continued to serve in Congress until 2001."
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"As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study."
C. L. R. James
"As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study."
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"The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders."
John Linder
"The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders."
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"Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty."
Hubert H. Humphrey
"Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty."
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"Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself."
Woodrow Wilson
"Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself."
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"It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition."
Caleb Cushing
"It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition."
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"The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries."
Samuel P. Huntington
"The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries."
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