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Politics Quotes


"Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously."


"We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric."


"The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America."


"The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today."


"Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?"


"The most censored speech in America today is not flag-burning, pornography, or the press."


"It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America."


"We have a set of sensible policies that are appropriate for the 21st century and which strike a chord of appeal with the silent majority. Perhaps that is why we are welcoming new members every week who have never before been involved in politics."


"I got politics and economics moving and then others took over."


"May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!"


"Today is a great day, not only of healing and reconciliation, but also coming together. I'm so glad the whole Little Rock Nine was alive and here to see this."


"The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries."


"Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales."


"Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration."


"It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes."


"Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites."


"In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds."


"Working Americans who believe in our country and who believe in our Constitution are saying, 'Enough is enough!'"



"The Scouts are a private organization and have every right to set their own membership standards."



"The Green Party represents that majority point of view within the U.S."


"On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics."


"France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina."


"If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon."


"In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes."


"Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century."


"The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger."


"Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence."


"I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime."


"At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over."


"I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies."


"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."


"I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too."


"I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on."


"Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong."



"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."


"Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers."


"We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen."


"Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed."
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