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Politics Quotes
"Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged."
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"Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish."
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"Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody."
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"All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca."
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"All politics are based on the indifference of the majority."
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"We certainly could have voted on making the middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts for working families permanent had the Republicans not insisted that the only way they would support those tax breaks is if we also added $700 billion to the deficit to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. That's what was really disturbing."
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"Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back."
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"An American tragedy in which we all have played a part."
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"In recurring episodes over the next couple of decades, the minority view gradually won. A profusion of factors differentiates each case from the others, including naked partisanship on both sides, but the trend has been clear."
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"Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time."
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"Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off."
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"I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics."
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"We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe."
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"When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again."
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"Our party may have swung too far right at various times."
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"In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process."
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"The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans."
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"I think the American people have been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis have taken to elections and politics."
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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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"It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans."
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"My message tonight is a simple one - the journey is getting exciting and this great state is on the move."
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"Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year."
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"I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case."
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"As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics."
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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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"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."
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"We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts."
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"English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind."
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"Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public."
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"In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested."
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"Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources."
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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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"I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute."
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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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"The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might."
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"Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe."
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"When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy."
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"We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up."
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"Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously."
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"We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric."
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