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Politics Quotes
"The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq."
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"So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in."
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"That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom."
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"I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received."
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"I believe politicians should always remain realistic."
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"What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?"
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"The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform."
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"As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair."
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"Without alienation, there can be no politics."
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"The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun."
61
"It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people."
61
"I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system."
61
"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do."
60
"So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?"
59
"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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"It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today."
59
"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."
58
"At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else."
58
"Politics knows no currency."
58
"It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them."
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"How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemiansism. When you were drunk or when you committed adultery you recognised your own personal fallability of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Majakowski."
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"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it."
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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 most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
57
"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry."
56
"Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism."
56
"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."
56
"We can play politics, or we can reduce crime."
56
"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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"To err is human. To blame someone else is politics."
56
"Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters."
56
"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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"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
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"Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians."
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