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Politics Quotes
"Listen, I think what's best for the economy and to create jobs is to extend all of the current tax rates - for all Americans. It - it begins to reduce the uncertainty. And for small businesspeople, they can look up and begin to plan."
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"Capitalists grow wealth. Socialists redistribute wealth.... but population grows, so the Socialist population control kicks in in the form of eugenics."
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"Today, I'm a candidate for the office of president of the United States of America. My kids can't believe I just said that."
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"No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herself as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist."
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"Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi."
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"Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives."
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"The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress."
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"In fact Sarah Palin has created more jobs than Obama has. She created eleven jobs fact-checking at the AP just for the Palin autobiography."
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"When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done."
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"Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good."
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"[representative government is] deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in Parliament."
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"Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably."
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"That's not water. That's socialism juice. We should bomb Lake Erie."
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"We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression."
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"If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep."
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"Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle."
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"In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war."
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"Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?"
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"Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies."
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"And American voters understand that if we want to keep fighting to move in the new - in a new direction, we've got a long way to go. And we need to make sure we continue with Democrats being in the majority."
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"Many people take a very low view of politicians, but that is exactly how they conduct their social interactions daily."
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"Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's."
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"A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel."
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"If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion."
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"Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged."
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"Mr. Dingell is just plain Mr. Dingell. And when he gets to be chairman of the Commerce Committee, he doesn't let it go to his head. However, he thinks he would be a very, very good chairman."
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"We certainly could have voted on making the middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts for working families permanent had the Republicans not insisted that the only way they would support those tax breaks is if we also added $700 billion to the deficit to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. That's what was really disturbing."
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"When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever."
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"Every town has become a border town and every State has become a border State."
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"If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show."
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"Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits."
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"The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well."
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"The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited."
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"We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better."
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"On completion of my military service, I went back to the factory and to the trade union."
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"I was very productive as a senator for my state."
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"I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington."
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"We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards."
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