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Politics Quotes
"I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics."
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"On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers."
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"Sometimes I wonder whether Washington's liberal politicians truly understand the greatness that is America."
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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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"I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s."
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"Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie."
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"The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are."
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"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act."
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"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion."
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"In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight."
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"Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts."
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"Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself."
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"England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases."
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"National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung."
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"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
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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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"Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction."
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"If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations."
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"Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be."
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"POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
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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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"I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq."
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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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"The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information."
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"It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and feign in their declamations-not in their personal conduct-a disdain of things secular and transitory. But the public ignores such utterances. The main goal of present-day political action is to secure for the respective pressure group memberships the highest material well-being. The only way for a leader to succeed is to instill in people the conviction that his program best serves the attainment of this goal."
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"I belong to a nation which for the past four years has begun to relive the course of her entire history and which is calmly and surely preparing out of the ruins to make another history. Your nation, on the other hand, has received from its sons only the love it deserved, which was blind. A nation is not justified by such love. That will be your undoing. And you who were already conquered in your greatest victories, what will you be in the approaching defeat?"
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"I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics."
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"Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law."
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"In my country we go to prison first and then become President."
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"I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics."
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"Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia."
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"Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network."
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"How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity."
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"The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks."
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"House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it."
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"Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago."
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