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Politics Quotes
"With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes."
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"The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq."
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"Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that."
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"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."
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"The real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development."
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"I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics."
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"Slogans seem to be dead, this world is now busy chanting fears of lost democracy."
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"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians."
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"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views."
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"At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else."
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"You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe."
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"I don't necessarily believe there's a message in the fact that I'm an African-American Republican. I think there is a message that America as a whole, we are now awake. We are looking at a political construct and we're fairly disappointed. I think the message is no matter where you come from in this country, there is great potential."
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"We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees."
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"I believe politicians should always remain realistic."
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"Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to."
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"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
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"It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins."
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"I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete."
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"I'd just as soon not get into a discussion about Jane and her politics. I'd just as soon stick to what we're here for, the picture."
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"A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail."
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"Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...."
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"There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics."
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"There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets."
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"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
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"The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun."
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"There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten."
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"I could have had class. I could have been a contender."
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"Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia."
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"This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it."
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"The worship of power is an old religion."
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"I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election."
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"Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. History has stopped. Nothing exists except in an endless present in which the Party is always right."
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"The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau."
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"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."
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"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do."
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"Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented."
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