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Politics Quotes
"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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"Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys."
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"On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does."
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"I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it."
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"Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them."
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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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"Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?"
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"He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence."
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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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"I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second."
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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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"To meet the shortage of supplies from America, due to lack of shipping, the representatives of the different supply departments were constantly in search of available material and supplies in Europe."
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"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
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"I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right."
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"In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization."
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"Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is-- so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group."
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"It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously."
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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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"Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward."
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"In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties."
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"State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people."
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"Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception. Every nationalist is capable of the most flagrant dishonesty, but he is also - since he is conscious of serving something bigger than himself - unshakeably certain of being in the right."
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"You should not do this, Comrade. We are only in the introductory stage yet, here in Western Europe. And in that stage it is better to encourage the fighters than the rulers."
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"Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets."
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"That government is best which governs least."
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"The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way."
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"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
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"I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics."
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"That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom."
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"It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail."
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"We are ready to train new Iraqi forces outside Iraq. We did it in Abu Dhabi."
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"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."
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"If Russia rises, it means that the USA falls down."
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