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Politics Quotes
"As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade."
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"Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door."
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"North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces."
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"The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit."
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"There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose."
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"The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant."
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"I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist."
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"The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin."
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"Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie."
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"It has to be because unemployment problems in northwest Indiana are similar to those in southeast Chicago."
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"The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures."
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"I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple."
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"We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget."
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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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"The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth."
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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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"I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in a Clinton candidacy or whether she really is something unique and has something to offer apart from her husband."
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"The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have a very tedious, very comprehensive process where we audit by precinct, across the state, every vote that was cast to make sure that every vote that was legally cast is counted."
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"Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws."
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"Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
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"I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm."
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"The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer."
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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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"Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them."
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"May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany."
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"The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings."
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"Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam."
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"All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best."
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"If you want to be loved by everyone, don't go into politics."
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"A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them."
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"And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination."
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"The vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people's lives."
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"Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America."
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"Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family context and in all other intimate relationships. It is that political movement which most radically addresses the person " the personal " citing the need for the transformation of self, of relationships, so that we might be better able to act in a revolutionary manner, challenging and resisting domination, transforming the world outside the self."
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"Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality."
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"Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably."
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"We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression."
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"Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress."
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"Of course, it's imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there."
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"Socialists seem to think George Orwell's 1984 is a suggestion, or at least are unashamed of mimicking the methods of the totalitarian state Orwell depicted. Libertarians know it to be a warning, and a government that micro-manages all aspects of humanity an intolerable reality."
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"Statism is political fashion.Individual liberty is eternal."
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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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"In a post-9/11 world, diversity has become even more important."
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