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"Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe."
George Washington
"Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe."
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"Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story."
Anthony Holden
"Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story."
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"I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states."
Jeane Kirkpatrick
"I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states."
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"It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics."
Roger Ebert
"It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics."
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"It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America."
Paul Begala
"It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America."
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"The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white."
Jonathan Lethem
"The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white."
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"When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics."
Frank Rich
"When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics."
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"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
Ronald Reagan
"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
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"The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously."
Ludwig Quidde
"The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously."
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"The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders."
John Linder
"The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders."
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"Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!"
Ferdinand Lassalle
"Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!"
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"In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds."
Jonathan Krohn
"In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds."
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"Politics is not about power."
Paul Wellstone
"Politics is not about power."
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"It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign."
Phyllis Schlafly
"It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign."
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"Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track."
Betty Shabazz
"Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track."
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"There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear."
Rose Kennedy
"There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear."
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"Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both."
Daniel De Leon
"Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both."
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"Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well."
Joe Murray
"Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well."
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"American families be warned, if the White House doesn't send your jobs overseas, they'll send your kids."
Joe Baca
"American families be warned, if the White House doesn't send your jobs overseas, they'll send your kids."
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"A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it."
William Feather
"A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it."
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"The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower."
Stephen Harper
"The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower."
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"Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America."
Oriana Fallaci
"Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America."
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"In politics, guts is all."
Barbara Castle
"In politics, guts is all."
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"The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those."
Eric Cantor
"The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those."
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"We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen."
Ken Mehlman
"We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen."
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"A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening."
Kathleen Sebelius
"A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening."
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"But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics."
Jonathan Coe
"But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics."
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"We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq."
Sam Brownback
"We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq."
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"I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective."
Jesse Ventura
"I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective."
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"They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front."
Tom Udall
"They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front."
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"According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally."
Luis Gutierrez
"According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally."
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"When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule."
Phyllis Schlafly
"When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule."
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"We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes."
John Boehner
"We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes."
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"How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me."
Paul Weyrich
"How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me."
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"When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America's addiction to oil. You make the connection."
Gwen Ifill
"When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America's addiction to oil. You make the connection."
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"I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan."
Everett Dirksen
"I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan."
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"The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship."
Frederick Forsyth
"The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship."
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"State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people."
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"Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did."
Jimmy Durante
"Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did."
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"My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses."
Camille Paglia
"My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses."
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"Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs."
Ruben Hinojosa
"Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs."
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"In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great."
Barbara Tuchman
"In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great."
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"Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives."
Karl Rove
"Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives."
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"The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot."
Carol Moseley Braun
"The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot."
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"The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves."
Walid Jumblatt
"The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves."
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"Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors."
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"I much preferred the approach at the anarchist camp, with its shared tasks and collective responsibilities. Everyone played their part. There was no division between workers and consumers."
John Blair
"I much preferred the approach at the anarchist camp, with its shared tasks and collective responsibilities. Everyone played their part. There was no division between workers and consumers."
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"I wonderif I should let my hair go greyso my advice will be better."
Margaret Atwood
"I wonderif I should let my hair go greyso my advice will be better."
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"Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived."
Robert Trout
"Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived."
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"Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."
P. J. O'Rourke
"Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."
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