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Politics Quotes
"The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians."
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"You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich."
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"I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome."
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"To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs."
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"I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years."
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"Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle."
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"Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress."
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"Well, it is true that they did - the Pentagon did impose rules for governing the handling of the Koran in January of 2003, after there had been complaints about the handling of the Koran from detainees, from the International Red Cross."
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"We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics."
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"It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics."
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"The American public is sick and tired of being lied to."
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"With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options."
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"The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations."
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"If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it."
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"Now, these eager and apprehensive men of small property constitute the class which is constantly increased by the equality of conditions. Hence, in democratic communities, the majority of the people do not clearly see what they have to gain by a revolution, but they continually and in a thousand ways feel that they might lose by one."
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"The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable."
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"There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders."
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"The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed."
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"I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us."
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"The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on."
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"That government is best which governs least."
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"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."
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"More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators."
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"In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences."
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"Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt."
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"It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined."
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"Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed."
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"There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'"
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"I think Bush's immigration proposal is treason and he should be impeached."
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"To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime."
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"All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca."
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"I have been to Iraq on a number of occasions. I was with the first group that went in."
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"No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician."
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"Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade."
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"Never, since the fall of communism, has it been so abundantly clear that an ethos exists, which is loath to accept the freedoms and prosperity we hold sacred in this nation."
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"I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first."
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