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Politics Quotes
"Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity."
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"Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers."
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"Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling."
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"By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do."
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"The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have a very tedious, very comprehensive process where we audit by precinct, across the state, every vote that was cast to make sure that every vote that was legally cast is counted."
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"Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face."
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"There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do."
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"I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be."
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"A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence."
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"For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford."
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"Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia."
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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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"Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era."
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"I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation."
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"You're going to be hearing a lot about one scrappy president."
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"Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts."
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"The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the Nazi period would have been much more complicated, or almost impossible."
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"We have no stronger ally anywhere in the world than Israel."
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"There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout."
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"People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics."
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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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"If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime."
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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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"Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish."
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"Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers."
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"Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit."
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"They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that."
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"What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production."
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"Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges."
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"I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas."
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"In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution."
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"Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without."
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"He's an honest politician--he stays bought."
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"This is my first term. I was told it was going to be an exciting term, and a lot of things would be done, and I cannot think about something more exciting than save Social Security."
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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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"Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks."
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"Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in."
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"George Bush is trying to play it both ways."
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"It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions."
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"I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded."
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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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