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Politics Quotes
"Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!"
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"There is an unnatural unfitness in an aristocracy to be legislators for a nation. Their ideas of distributive justice are corrupted at the very source. They begin life trampling on all their younger brothers and sisters, and relations of every kind, and are taught and educated so to do. With what ideas of justice or honor can that man enter a house of legislation, who absorbs in his own person the inheritance of a whole family of children, or metes out some pitiful portion with the insolence of a gift?"
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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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"The worship of power is an old religion."
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"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
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"Sociopaths are attracted to politics because the see it as a sphere in which you can be ruthless and step all over people. That fact that some politicians can tell such awful lies is another example of sociopathy. Sociopaths lie-they see nothing wrong with 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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"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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"One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians."
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"There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets."
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"I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics."
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"I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions."
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"In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions."
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"We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old."
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"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
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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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"I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete."
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"France freed from that monster Bonaparte must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose ties of family and fortune give a preference to some other one and the first choice of all not under those ties."
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"In politics the choice is constantly between two evils."
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"Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale."
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"As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here."
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"You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at."
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"And shall I still be allowed to wear ribbons in my mane?" asked Mollie."Comrade," said Snowball, "those ribbons that you are so devoted to are the badge of slavery. Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?"Mollie agreed, but she did not sound very convinced."
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"She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them."
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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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"But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class."
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"To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics."
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"We ought to disarm Germany completely."
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"Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects."
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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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"In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes."
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"The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before."
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"In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance."
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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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"Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented."
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"Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements."
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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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"I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences."
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