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Politics Quotes
"Nuclear weapons kill Americans - they don't kill Republicans or Democrats - they kill Americans."
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"I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket."
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"People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans."
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"Lenin only believes in the revolution and in the virtue of expediency.'One must be prepared for every sacrifice, to use, if necessary, every stratagem, ruse, illegal method, to be determined to conceal the truth, for the sole purpose of accomplishing, despite everything, the communist task'."
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"Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected."
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"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."
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"Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film."
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"Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting."
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"Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves."
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"Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission."
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"I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix."
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"The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General."
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"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."
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"We've thrown out Saddam and Saddam, dead or alive, is finished in Iraq."
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"We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place."
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"My belief is the majority of people in politics are just interested in pursuing this career in politics, and doing what's necessary to get themselves re-elected. And if that happens to coincide with the public good, great. But if it doesn't, the public good loses out."
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"Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little."
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"In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions."
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"I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country."
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"As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?"
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"Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition."
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"John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly."
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"The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican problem. It is an American problem."
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"We have a set of sensible policies that are appropriate for the 21st century and which strike a chord of appeal with the silent majority. Perhaps that is why we are welcoming new members every week who have never before been involved in politics."
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"Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship."
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"No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing."
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"We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops."
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"That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city."
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"For months, people have been asking my views about the Scottish independence referendum, and I've been saying, 'It's not my country; I don't live here. Much as I love Scotland, I think it would be inappropriate to express a personal opinion regarding Scottish politics'."
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"Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship."
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"The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."
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"I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress."
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"Well, let's assume the world is linear. If we required a certain amount of troops per 25,000 population in the Balkans, if the world is not radically different, something of the same extent is going to be needed in Iraq."
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"But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created."
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"My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me."
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"At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging."
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"I don't think that politics attracts the best and the brightest of America. It doesn't attract the most sincere people."
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"I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars."
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