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Politics Quotes
"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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"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do."
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"There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose."
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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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"That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution."
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"I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours."
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"We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest."
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"Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!"
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"Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state."
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"That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards."
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"We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops."
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"I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment."
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"I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies."
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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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"This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher."
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"I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me."
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"Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer."
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"We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget."
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"We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise."
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"Oh, that's just Thud! That's easy!" yapped a voice.Both men turned to look at Horsefry, who had been made perky by sheer relief."I used to play it when I was a kid," he burbled. It's boring. The dwarfs always win!"Gilt and Vetinari shared a look. It said: While I loathe you and every aspect of your personal philosophy to a depth unplummable by any line, I'll credit you at least with not being Crispin Horsefry."
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"America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration."
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"I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't."
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"The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations."
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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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"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
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"May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany."
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"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."
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"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
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"The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around."
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"All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best."
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"The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves."
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"I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq."
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"Politicians are no different than the rest of the public."
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"Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak."
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"The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible."
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"The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship."
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"The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them."
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