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Politics Quotes
"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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"Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face."
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"Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult."
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"What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld."
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"By now, they rank people by income level or wages roughly the same: The bottom seventy per cent or so are virtually disenfranchised; they have almost no influence on policy, and as you move up the scale you get more influence. At the very top, you basically run the show."
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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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"Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?"
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"Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything."
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"This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air."
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"They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward."
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"You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler."
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"Whatever was the conduct of England, I am equally arraigned."
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"But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes."
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"Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face."
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"America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus."
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"The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world."
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"Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter."
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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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"Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today."
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"By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties."
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"Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward."
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"I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?"
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"I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor."
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"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."
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"The coining of their new catch-phrase 'homophiliac' displayed in contrast to 'homophobic' was rather amusing, though to think that they believe it means anything different to 'homophobic' is just facetious. It's like someone trying to create a difference in definition between 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' - or to make the one look better or less reprehensible than the other."
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"What is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we're rooted somewhere, they've got our address, right?"
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"Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship."
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"Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics."
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"Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics."
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"You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example."
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"But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists."
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