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Politics Quotes
"I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known."
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"Communism is as crude an attempt to explain society and the individual as if a surgeon were to perform his delicate operations with a meat ax. All that is subtle in human psychology and in the structure of society (which is even more complex), all of this is reduced to crude economic processes. The whole created being-man-is reduced to matter. It is characteristic that Communism is so devoid of arguments that it has none to advance against its opponents in our Communist countries. It lacks arguments and hence there is the club, the prison, the concentration camp, and insane asylums with forced confinement."
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"Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives."
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"Communists have committed great crimes but at least they have not stood aside like an established society and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate."
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"This emperor was arbiter of the whole world at nineteen, and yet would have a man to be thirty before he could be fit to determine a dispute about a gutter."
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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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"But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class."
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"Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates."
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"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
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"Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia."
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"What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos."
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"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions."
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"In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight."
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"That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers."
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"American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free."
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"The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves."
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"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office."
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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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"By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties."
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"If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination."
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"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."
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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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"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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"One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness " in communities, in institutions, among friends."
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"The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world."
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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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"She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them."
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"Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia."
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"Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism."
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"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
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