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Politics Quotes
"Politics preys on people's naivety."
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"Typically, in politics, more than one horse is owned and managed by the same team in an election. There's always and extra candidate who will slightly mimic the views of their team's opposing horse, to cancel out that person by stealing their votes just so the main horse can win. Elections are puppet shows. Regardless of their rainbow coats and many smiles, the agenda is one and the same."
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"Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands killed in the name of corporate "liberation"."
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"When a state is afraid of the journalists, it means that that state is definitely doing some secret devilish things!"
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"Our children must learnto face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the resultsthe whole democratic systemdepends upon it. For our system is founded on self-government, which is untenable if the individuals who make up the system are unable to govern themselves."
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"Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it."
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"The Imperial forces must keep their hands off, but they find that they can do much even so. Each sector is encouraged to be suspicious of its neighbors. Within each sector, economic and social classes are encouraged to wage a kind of war with each other. The result is that all over Trantor it is impossible for the people to take united action. Everywhere, the people would rather fight each other than make a common stand against the central tyranny and the Empire rules without having to exert force."
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"When the democrats choose not to be democratic, democracy fails to be democratic."
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"I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe - "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient."
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"The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with delusion and by using alluring confidence tricks. They voice attractive tales and tell things, people like to hear. But the post-factual grassland often appears to be parched and barren. ['The grass was greener over there']"
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"If you want to live in a state known for its corruption, come to Arizona!"
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"The freest societies are in a constant state of revolution."
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"The greatest domestic terrorists in the USA are either working for the corporate government or are funding it."
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"In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character."
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"You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day."
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"The name of the regime where media is on the side of the government is undoubtedly fascism, a regime of the sick minds where freedoms are drowned in the cold waters of oppressions!"
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"We are in the energy dictatorship that calls itself the United States of America."
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"If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!"
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"The biggest mistake of a democratic country is to underestimate the power of a democratically elected pro-fascist leader because it is always easier to destroy a castle from within!"
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"I am far more fearful of the USA government than I am of North Korea."
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"I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers."
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"Government is all show when it isn't murder in the dark ... or soldiers in the open."
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"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon."
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"The more a politician stays in the high positions, the dirtier and filthier he becomes! Countries must ensure that no politician stays long in the high offices or else the whole country starts becoming dirty and filthy!"
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"Politics calls for robust debate and criticism, but this should never descend to personal and demeaning slurs."
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"One-man regimes belong to old eras, they involve clowning and arbitrariness! In the twenty-first century only the silly and larky nations give permission to such third-class contemptible regimes!"
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"Important decisions that will affect a nation's fate or humanity's fate cannot be left to the referendums! Because such decisions require good knowledge of history, they require a sound reason and a powerful logic and masses often do not have such characteristics!"
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"In a democratic country everything is very simple: If you choose a good government, good things will happen; if you choose a bad government, bad things will happen!"
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"Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support."
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"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."
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"Oppression is opposition."
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"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."
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"There is a dedication to willful incompetence in many corporate government departments."
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"Now our modern politics are full of a noisy forgetfulness; forgetfulness that the production of this [man's] happy and conscious life is after all the aim of all complexities and compromises. We talk of nothing but useful men and working institutions; that is, we only think of the chickens as things that will lay more eggs."
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"Normalcy was declared. (Normalcy was always a declaration."
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