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Politics Quotes
"Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike."
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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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"On Undecided Voters: 'To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. 'Can I interest you in the chicken?' she asks. 'Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?' To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.'"
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"I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received."
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"The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun."
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"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
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"The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq."
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"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
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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."
72
"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?"
71
"Without alienation, there can be no politics."
71
"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do."
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"I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system."
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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."
69
"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"
69
"At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else."
69
"I believe politicians should always remain realistic."
68
"We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism."
68
"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 dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it."
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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."
67
"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."
67
"The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself."
66
"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."
66
"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry."
65
"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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"Politics knows no currency."
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"We can play politics, or we can reduce crime."
65
"The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression."
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"The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way."
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"To err is human. To blame someone else is politics."
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"On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does."
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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."
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