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"The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never."
Victor Davis Hanson
"The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never."
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"Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors."
Barbara Tuchman
"Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors."
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"When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy."
James Ellroy
"When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy."
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"First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win."
Donald Rumsfeld
"First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win."
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"My country can never be taken away from me now, I'd happily given it away."
Kiera Cass
"My country can never be taken away from me now, I'd happily given it away."
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"She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!"
Andrew Card
"She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!"
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"We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress."
Nick Lampson
"We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress."
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"We would like UN resolutions to be enforced, including on Iraq."
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
"We would like UN resolutions to be enforced, including on Iraq."
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"It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find that nobody had really studied it."
Robert Jay Lifton
"It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find that nobody had really studied it."
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"When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say."
Gerald R. Ford
"When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say."
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"Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off."
Chris Patten
"Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off."
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"I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed."
Nellie Bly
"I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed."
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"A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience."
George Will
"A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience."
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"I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago."
Rand Beers
"I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago."
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"I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave."
Robert Capa
"I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave."
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"Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security."
Dianne Feinstein
"Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security."
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"English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen."
Ernest Istook
"English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen."
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"Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."
Christopher Lasch
"Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."
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"They have had three years to get a resolution and they failed. Both of these guys have failed."
Marcel Dionne
"They have had three years to get a resolution and they failed. Both of these guys have failed."
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"Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?"
Sean Hannity
"Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?"
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"My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself."
Antonio Tabucchi
"My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself."
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"I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States."
Barbara Mikulski
"I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States."
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"Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him."
Michael Isikoff
"Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him."
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"Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people."
Ed Miliband
"Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people."
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"In all, we investigated, I think, close to 50 rumors about offers to kill Dr. King around the country. But we found no evidence to support rumors of FBI involvement in the assassination."
Louis Stokes
"In all, we investigated, I think, close to 50 rumors about offers to kill Dr. King around the country. But we found no evidence to support rumors of FBI involvement in the assassination."
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"Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie."
Jay Inslee
"Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie."
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"It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU."
Phyllis Schlafly
"It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU."
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"LENIN = "Revolutionary Social Democracy"American Socialists = "Democratic Socialism". What is the difference? The USSR held democratic referendums too; all of which increased the power of the central planners and reduced the individual to nothingness."
A.E. Samaan
"LENIN = "Revolutionary Social Democracy"American Socialists = "Democratic Socialism". What is the difference? The USSR held democratic referendums too; all of which increased the power of the central planners and reduced the individual to nothingness."
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"Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon."
Walid Jumblatt
"Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon."
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"Americans who may be going to the largest embassy we've ever had."
Richard Lugar
"Americans who may be going to the largest embassy we've ever had."
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"I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple."
Barbara Olson
"I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple."
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"No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps."
Steve Forbes
"No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps."
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"If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity."
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
"If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity."
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"On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship."
Nathan Deal
"On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship."
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"My audience is much more center right, or centrist."
Chris Matthews
"My audience is much more center right, or centrist."
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"The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories."
Christopher Lasch
"The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories."
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"I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county."
Thomas Jordan Jarvis
"I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county."
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"The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more."
Gijs de Vries
"The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more."
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"The state is the soul of man enlarged under the microscope of history."
Will Durant
"The state is the soul of man enlarged under the microscope of history."
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"The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch."
Emma Lazarus
"The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch."
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"Politics makes strange bedfellows."
Charles Dudley Warner
"Politics makes strange bedfellows."
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"I like politics. I like traveling in the United States."
Laura Bush
"I like politics. I like traveling in the United States."
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"Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year."
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
"Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year."
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"The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other."
H. Rap Brown
"The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other."
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"Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops."
Marty Meehan
"Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops."
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"I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing."
Tim Pawlenty
"I do support enhanced interrogation techniques. Obviously their value is shining through with respect to the bin Laden killing."
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"I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi - jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press."
Morrissey
"I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi - jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press."
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"Gossip is easy, politics is hard."
Tabitha Soren
"Gossip is easy, politics is hard."
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"The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year."
Phyllis Schlafly
"The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year."
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"People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics."
Douglas Hurd
"People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics."
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