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Politics Quotes
"I could have had class. I could have been a contender."
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"So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris."
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"Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians."
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"Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to."
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"Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear."
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"I'd just as soon not get into a discussion about Jane and her politics. I'd just as soon stick to what we're here for, the picture."
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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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"What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos."
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"I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics."
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"Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization."
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"Politics knows no currency."
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"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."
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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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"I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election."
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"The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and all the world over. But the workers in Western Europe stand alone: this should never be forgotten in Russia."
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"One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians."
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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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"For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher."
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"I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions."
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"Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling."
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"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to."
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"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office."
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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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"I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics."
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"That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom."
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"Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia."
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"Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed."
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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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"The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia."
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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 Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple."
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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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"We have no stronger ally anywhere in the world than Israel."
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"There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout."
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"Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council."
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