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Politics Quotes
"Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made."
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"I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it."
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"I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours."
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"This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher."
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"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
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"Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families."
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"The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself."
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"Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...."
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"Slogans seem to be dead, this world is now busy chanting fears of lost democracy."
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"You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott."
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"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to."
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"The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression."
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"There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten."
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"We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics."
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"It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter, that technically and economically we have left the territorial state behind us."
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"I don't necessarily believe there's a message in the fact that I'm an African-American Republican. I think there is a message that America as a whole, we are now awake. We are looking at a political construct and we're fairly disappointed. I think the message is no matter where you come from in this country, there is great potential."
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"I could have had class. I could have been a contender."
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"On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does."
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"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word."
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"There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics."
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"On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity."
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"We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good."
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"We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees."
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"Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that."
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"The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning."
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"I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'."
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"The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way."
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"He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great."
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"The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense."
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"Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions."
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"The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments."
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