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Politics Quotes
"It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party that's getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank."
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"I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement."
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"These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism."
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"Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to."
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"Democracy is a poor system, the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method."
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"I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines."
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"The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly."
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"I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here."
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"Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms."
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"This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first."
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"Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
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"In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall."
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"For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is."
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"Instead, we did take our eye off the ball. We decided, instead of finishing the job in Afghanistan, to go into Iraq. And today, unfortunately, if you look at the situation on the ground, it is a mess."
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"The opposite of Nazi is neither Republican nor Democrat, conservative or liberal. Totalitarianism's diametric opposite of is Libertarianism."
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"In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead."
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"Politics in America is the binding secular religion."
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"My message tonight is a simple one - the journey is getting exciting and this great state is on the move."
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"So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned."
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"Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year."
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"But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal characteristics."
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"Once the anchor of reason has been cut, one's craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler."
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"I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent."
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"The law's a necessary evil--we canna be doing without it--but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience?"
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"Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors."
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"The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices."
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"Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why."
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"Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water."
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"Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero."
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"The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct."
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"The missiles come first, and the justifications come second."
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"Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!"
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"I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point."
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"I went to Russia a Communist; but contact with those who have no doubts has intensified a thousandfold my own doubts, not as to Communism in itself, but as to the wisdom of holding a creed so firmly that for its sake men are willing to inflict widespread misery."
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"We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons."
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"One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are."
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"In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections... Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy."
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