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Politics Quotes
"Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial."
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"Political pundits are under professional obligation to regard the obvious as being too obvious."
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"President Bush will come here and there will be new "friends" of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who "liberated" them."
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"In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee."
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"Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them."
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"The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it. They worship money and power and death. Their ideal solution to all the nation's problems would be another 100 Year War."
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"I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest."
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"I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free."
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"Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way."
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"I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics."
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"Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung."
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"Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
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"My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London."
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"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced."
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"These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when you consider that the poverty line has not been adequately adjusted to reflect the true level of poverty in this country."
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"What we have to do is to find a solution that the interests of the national teams are respecting the interests of the clubs. And also the clubs they shall respect the interests and the aspirations of national teams."
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"The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to."
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"Who cares about that stuff? This is America, not Jerusalem. I'm an American. Let Harry be a Jew."
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"That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves."
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"As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program."
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"I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq."
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"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap."
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"I have been taunted on various platforms recently for becoming a neo-conservative, and have been the object of some fascinating web-site and blog stuff, from the isolationist Right as well as from the peaceniks, who both argue in a semi-literate way that neo-conservativism is Trotskyism and 'permanent revolution' reborn.Sometimes, you have to comb an overt anti-Semitism out of this propaganda before you can even read it straight. And I can guarantee you that none of these characters has any idea at all of what the theory of 'permanent revolution' originally meant."
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"Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?"
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"Corporate terrorism is psychological warfare. Corporate terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society."
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"My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada."
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"I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals."
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"I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward."
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"Texans should not be taxed on our taxes."
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"On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech."
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"Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message will be given to criminals who foisted this on America that they lost."
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"I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics."
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"No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplicable delay in the advent of help from the loyal States."
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"If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it."
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"Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?"
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"The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America."
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"Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies."
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