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Politics Quotes
"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants."
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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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"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."
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"The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun."
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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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"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
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"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
41
"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?"
40
"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do."
40
"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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"There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten."
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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."
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"I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system."
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"The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq."
39
"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry."
39
"Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism."
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"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it."
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"Slogans seem to be dead, this world is now busy chanting fears of lost democracy."
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"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
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"I believe politicians should always remain realistic."
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"We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees."
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"Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it."
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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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"There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics."
37
"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."
37
"Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...."
37
"You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott."
36
"I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours."
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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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"We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good."
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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."
36
"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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"To err is human. To blame someone else is politics."
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