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Quotes by Politician
"I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches."
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"What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world."
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"In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state."
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"The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims."
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"When I was thinking of casting this, I thought, What roles would Sellers be playing now?"
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"Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11."
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"In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product."
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"You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death."
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"I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use."
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"That can be achieved by termination of Israeli occupation to the territories according to the international resolutions related, so the Palestinian State can be establish with Jerusalem as capital for such State."
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"The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided."
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"I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics."
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"Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos."
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"You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare."
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"The unions and the auto companies have been unable to put a deal together that fundamentally restructures the industry. It needs to get done. The only way it's really going to get done is in bankruptcy court. They should have done it six months ago they should do it now."
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"Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper."
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"You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent."
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"I wanted to go to sea when I graduated from high school but my folks talked me out of it."
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"As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved."
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"If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase."
Tax,
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"Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship."
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"I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare."
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"In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone."
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"I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office."
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"We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy."
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"We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty."
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"The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States."
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"The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything."
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"There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect."
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"The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities."
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"No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin."
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"We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action."
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"The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.'"
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"Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information."
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"The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden."
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"We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't."
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"Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community to assume its collective responsibility."
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"Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council."
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"The South is a great driving destination for tourism - heritage, cultural and many other types of tourism."
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"Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same."
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"The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption."
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"Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win."
Race,
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"I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A."
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"The soy-bean, in particular, has proved sufficiently resistant to cold in spring and to adverse weather during summer to warrant heavy planting, especially throughout the South."
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"You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest."
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"It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do."
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