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Politics Quotes
"We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old."
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"The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?"
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"Our State Department is often wrong and timid."
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"The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future."
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"Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face."
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"The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world."
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"We have no stronger ally anywhere in the world than Israel."
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"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."
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"They use the pretext of avoiding war, to make you swallow any kind of peace, said Paul. They use the pretext of a revolution to involve us in any kind of war, said Jardinet."
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"Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements."
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"It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself."
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"India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there."
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"It's true that the question of Iraq divided Europe."
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"Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear."
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"That the social life of human beings is subject to definite limitations; that it is governed by a set of laws that are comparable with those of Nature; these are notions that are unknown to the etatist. For the etatist, everything is a question of Macht - power, force, might. And his conception of Macht is crudely materialistic."
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"If you say you're a unifier, you expect and usually get applause. I'm a divider. Politics is division by definition, if there was no disagreement there would be no politics. The illusion of unity isn't worth having, and is anyways unattainable."
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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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"Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult."
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"The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself."
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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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"I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do."
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"It is a false and dangerous situation which bases public power on private want, and roots the grandeur of the State in the suffering of the individual. It is a badly constituted grandeur which combines all the material elements, and into which no moral element enters."
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"Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them."
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"I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents."
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"Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open."
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"I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head."
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"Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen."
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"I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs."
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"I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s."
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"I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions."
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"All wars are sacred, he said. 'To those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight? But, no matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles. But so few people ever realize it. Their ears are too full of bugles and drums and the fine words from stay-at-home orators. Sometimes the rallying cry is 'save the Tomb of Christ from the Heathen!' Sometimes it's 'down with Popery!' and sometimes 'Liberty!' and sometimes 'Cotton, Slavery and States' Rights!"
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"I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America."
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"I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword."
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"Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses."
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"I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America."
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"The more powerful the powerful appear the more invisible they become, said Armando. This used to work differently than now. In the old days it was said that the powerful merged with the divine and the divine was all that one saw. But now the powerful have merged with the shadow, really with death, and when you encounter them they are really hard to see."
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