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Politics Quotes
"I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking."
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"The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information."
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"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians."
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"Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope."
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"The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious."
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"That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom."
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"Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't."
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"U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter."
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"The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves."
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"In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall."
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"How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity."
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"Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China."
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"Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade."
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"Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government."
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"Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states."
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"I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head."
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"They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate campaign against me has been so intense and so vicious that it's a miracle that the police have taken such a professional approach."
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"Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience."
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"It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans."
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"As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada."
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"I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team."
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"Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year."
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"Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen."
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"The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to have, whose fault was it that there were communists were able to do so well down there, well, that wasn't the point."
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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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"We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement."
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"I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label."
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"International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable."
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"Once the anchor of reason has been cut, one's craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler."
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"That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children."
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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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"The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe."
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"But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists."
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"There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization."
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"This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it."
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"There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets."
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"We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas."
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"In the first State of the Union of his second term, President Bush made clear to Americans tonight that he is not going to play the role of a lame duck President."
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