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Politics Quotes


"I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it."


"Israel has always been and must always be America's strongest ally."


"Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined."


"I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents."


"Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds."


"We ought to disarm Germany completely."


"I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics."


"Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen."


"If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws."


"He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it."


"As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade."


"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."


"We will not send troops. Germany is not committed to Iraq - we will not commit ourselves with troops."


"Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown."


"I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here."



"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."


"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to."


"In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance."


"Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose."


"Politicians are no different than the rest of the public."


"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."


"If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination."


"The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America."


"I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor."


"In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded."


"I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they would have an incentive to buy now rather than defer. I would also give to the states $40 billion of relief."


"I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't."


"All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected."


"Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed."
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