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Politics Quotes
"We have to make it clear that one, two or even three BNP MEPs elected to Brussels will have very little effect on the workings of the Parliament and the Commission."
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"I'm very close to suggesting that Mr. Pitt has now served as long as he can usefully do so. He seems to take his foot out of his mouth only for purposes of changing feet."
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"The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics."
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"I was never named in the early years as having anything to do with the assassination of Malcolm."
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"In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at heart and policemen sometimes killed people would have automatically made them a radical firebrand lefty. That's not the case anymore."
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"The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many."
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"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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"I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics."
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"I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill."
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"Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again."
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"During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris."
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"No matter how powerful our political and religious leaders think they are, they are as dust before the immense and implacable forces of history and progress. I just hope that they don't make too much of a mess or take too many more people down with them."
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"Chronicling future appeasing Prime Minister Joseph Chamberlain's rise to Parliament from first-generation commercial interests rather than the aristocracy, the author diagnoses even then that he had no center outside himself."
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"When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line."
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"Now interpersonal politics... that's what it's all about."
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"I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is."
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"In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process."
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"All right, I will read what's in my pocket."
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"One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless."
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"It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it."
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"But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy."
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"Democracy is the government of the people by the people for the people."
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"If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice."
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"If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives."
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"It's very unlikely that we're going to send more troops to Iraq. We are going to have to train the Iraqis faster and harder."
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"I say that why don't we bring all points of view. Sit around a table and discuss this evidence, and produce evidence as it may be, and let's see what the outcome is, which is why we are having this International panel which we are all talking about."
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"I always said a good despotism was the best form of government, and I am twice as much in favour of it now I see what a quorum is!"
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"First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures."
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"Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal."
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"I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on."
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"We can push Montana forward and we can do it with out raising taxes."
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"Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another - and that is called, the love of your country, love of the neighbor . . .? One can see that where sentiment and emotion come in, love is not."
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"I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway."
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"I can do one of two things. I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice Roosevelt. (His 19-year-old daughter.) I cannot possibly do both."
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"These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world."
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"Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years."
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"We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured."
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"Nuclear weapons kill Americans - they don't kill Republicans or Democrats - they kill Americans."
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