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Politics Quotes
"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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"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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"If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination."
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"The better organized the state, the duller its humanity."
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"The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments."
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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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"Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S."
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"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."
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"Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets."
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"For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush."
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"Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?"
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"The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself."
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"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."
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"The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform."
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"Increasingly, Americans don't own America."
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"I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'."
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"Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They're organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations."
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"Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin."
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"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals."
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"To say that an Orgota government fell means, of course, only that one group of Commensals replaced another group of Commensals in the controlling offices of the Thirty-Three. Some shadows got shorter and some longer, as they say in Karhide."
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"He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great."
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"Fascism is not the result of dictatorship."
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"We conservatives don't have a corner on saying 'no'. We're just the ones who say it when it's the right thing to say."
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"Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt."
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"But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class."
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"I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends."
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"We are ready to train new Iraqi forces outside Iraq. We did it in Abu Dhabi."
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"We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course."
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"It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth."
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"I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix."
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"When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression."
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"I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran."
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"That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today."
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"The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families."
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