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Politics Quotes
"Not to dampen any parade, but if one asks if there is a single thing about Mr. Obama's Senate record, or state legislature record, or current program, that could possibly justify his claim to the presidency one gets ... what? Not much. Similarly lightweight unqualified 'white' candidates have overcome this objection, to be sure, but what kind of standard is that?"
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"After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden."
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"Yes. I don't think it would be appropriate at this point to raise taxes on anyone, certainly not in 2011."
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"Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended."
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"Altruism holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only moral justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty. The political expression of altruism is collectivism or statism, which holds that man's life and work belong to the state - to society, to the group, the gang, the race, the nation - and that the state may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good."
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"Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame."
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"We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them."
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"It's clear that we need comprehensive immigration reform."
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"For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads, 'We came in peace for all Mankind.' As the United States was dropping seven and a half megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock."
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"Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time."
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"Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed."
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"Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good."
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"To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true."
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"There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."
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"Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder."
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"Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm."
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"The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others."
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"Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less."
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"As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate."
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"And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one."
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"Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State."
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"The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes."
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"Everything passes through the eyes of top bureaucrats who closely watch to ensure that no intruder can enter their ranks and disrupt the order and arrangement of values in which everything is predetermined and where everyone knows their place, everyone's potential, talent and position in history."
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"We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left."
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"For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents."
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"I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush."
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"You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world."
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"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
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"All I want to be is human and American and have all the same rights and I will shut up."
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"We will never be authentically angry or authentically fair while we are trying to be both at once."
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"Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot ."
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"If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men."
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"Russell observes that "the merits of democracy are negative: it does not ensure good government, but it prevents certain evils," such as the evil of a small group of individuals achieving a secure monopoly on political power. The chief peril for the politician, Russell insists, is love of power. And politicians can easily yield to the love of power on the pretense that they are pursuing some absolute good."
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"I pledge you I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and courage. This is a call to arms."
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"I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism will grow in strength in our land."
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"The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them."
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"Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents."
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"Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience."
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"We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view."
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"Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it."
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