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Quotes by Diplomat
"The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain."
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"We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry."
16
"Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide."
Vote,
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"There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently."
16
"The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched."
16
"It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity."
16
"The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39."
16
"Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines."
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"We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE."
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"That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well."
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"The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision."
16
"First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war."
16
"You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions."
15
"First of all we have to recognize that despite all the problems - and in some cases failures - that this regime has been much more successful, much more resilient, than people had anticipated."
15
"The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to have, whose fault was it that there were communists were able to do so well down there, well, that wasn't the point."
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"More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament."
15
"Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God."
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"Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected."
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"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts."
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"It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them."
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"If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions."
15
"Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues."
15
"Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People."
15
"And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril."
15
"Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think."
15
"What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort."
15
"We need to do a lot more thinking about how the regime is going to evolve, how the bad guys are going to adapt their tactics, and what measures we're going to need in order to go forward."
15
"Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People."
15
"There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion."
14
"I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot."
14
"Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea."
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"I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred."
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"Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal."
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"Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust."
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"The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized."
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"She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again."
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"Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate."
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"Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared."
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