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Politics Quotes


"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."


"I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states."



"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."


"It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America."


"When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics."



"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."


"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."


"Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!"


"In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it."



"The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower."


"Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America."


"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."


"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."


"A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening."



"We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq."


"I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective."



"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."


"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."


"When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule."


"We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes."



"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."


"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."


"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."


"The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship."


"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."


"Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did."


"My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses."



"Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs."


"In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great."



"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."


"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."



"The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves."


"Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors."


"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."



"Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived."


"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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