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Politics Quotes
"While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart."
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"But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral."
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"I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism."
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"Sincerity is not part of the political vocabulary. If it is used or implied bells should ring."
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"The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads."
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"But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right."
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"The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs."
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"Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits."
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"We have not always agreed, but I have said repeatedly and publicly many times that Al Sharpton has never counseled violence, but he gets blamed for a whole lot of that."
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"It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans."
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"As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics."
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"The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion."
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"Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments."
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"Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices."
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"This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics."
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"There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory."
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"They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories."
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"Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously."
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"The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today."
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"Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state."
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"The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget."
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"We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas."
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"Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both."
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"Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time."
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"Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation."
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"Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism."
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"I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency."
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"With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind."
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"So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us."
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"Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists."
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"I am going to do everything I can to clear my name."
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"When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then."
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"We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates."
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"Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes."
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"The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank."
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