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Politics Quotes
"Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented."
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"Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy."
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"How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity."
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"So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?"
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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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"The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia."
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"Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism."
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"National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung."
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"We can play politics, or we can reduce crime."
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"India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there."
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"To err is human. To blame someone else is politics."
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"Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it."
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"You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott."
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"No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states."
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"Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote."
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"Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness."
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"We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good."
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"Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls."
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"Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak."
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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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"We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics."
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"If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for ... but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against. In case of doubt, vote against. By this rule you will rarely go wrong."
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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'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year."
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"Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs."
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"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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"What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld."
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"This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come."
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"I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system."
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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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"Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom."
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"Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win."
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"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
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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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"The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all."
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