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Politics Quotes
"American consumers benefit from free trade and investment."
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"So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less."
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"And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year."
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"I hope to submit to the little pamphlet magazines here 'freelance' and perhaps shall join the Labour Club, as I really want to become informed on politics, and it seems to have an excellent program. I am definitely not a Conservative, and the Liberals are too vague and close to the latter."
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"Obviously, overall infrastructure needs on the Southwest and Northern borders are mounting. We need a major push in Congress to remedy this."
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"Every day I turn on my television set and I see Newt Gingrich on television, I rejoice."
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"Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy."
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"As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community."
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"It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also."
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"We're only one of a few states that have maintained our Triple-A bond rating from the major rating agencies."
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"What's going on outside, Ravic? 'Nothing new, Kate. The world goes on eagerly preparing for suicide and at the same time deluding itself about what it's doing. 'Will there be war? 'Everyone knows that there will be war. What one does not yet know is when. Everyone expects a miracle. Ravic smiled. 'Never before have I seen so many politicians who believe in miracles as at present in France and England. And never so few as in Germany. She remained lying silent for a while. 'To think that it should be possible- she said then. 'Yes- it seems so impossible that it will happen some day. Just because one considers it so impossible and doesn't protect oneself against it."
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"For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush."
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"So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations."
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"The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform."
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"I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me."
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"Increasingly, Americans don't own America."
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"It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously."
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"Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism."
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"I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around."
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"Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I'm encouraged that there's some prospect for that now."
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"The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses."
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"Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics."
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"I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister."
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"The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states."
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"Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000."
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"The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves."
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"Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis."
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"Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China."
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"Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back."
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"Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools."
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"The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game."
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"The Center for Immigration Studies found that illegal immigrants cost the United States taxpayer about $10.4 billion a year. A large part of that expense stems from the babies born each year to illegal immigrants."
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"I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team."
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"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
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"I have seen the times when the grassroots has moved the Congress. We listen way more often to our constituents than the lobbyists. And the grassroots are going to have to do it."
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"I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I'm excited about it and I think it can even pass next year."
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"I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils."
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"At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well."
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"Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry."
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