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Politics Quotes
"For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford."
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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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"If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?"
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"Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be."
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"Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets."
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"I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country."
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"I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
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"Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect."
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"Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered."
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"Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era."
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"The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other."
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"Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues."
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"We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell."
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"I belong to a nation which for the past four years has begun to relive the course of her entire history and which is calmly and surely preparing out of the ruins to make another history. Your nation, on the other hand, has received from its sons only the love it deserved, which was blind. A nation is not justified by such love. That will be your undoing. And you who were already conquered in your greatest victories, what will you be in the approaching defeat?"
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"I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible."
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"The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two."
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"The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy."
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"Corporations barely pay taxes. The corporate tax rate is already very low, but corporations have worked out an array of complicated techniques so they often don't have to pay taxes at all... The scale of sheer robbery by corporate power is enormous."
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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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"We ought to disarm Germany completely."
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"Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics."
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"Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen."
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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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"They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward."
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"We will not send troops. Germany is not committed to Iraq - we will not commit ourselves with troops."
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"You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler."
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"When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency."
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"For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher."
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"In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes."
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"In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance."
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"I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation."
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"There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout."
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"You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job."
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