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Quotes by Politician
"You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go."
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"Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards."
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"What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity."
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"The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction."
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"That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work."
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"I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in the camp in which I am in, one finds libraries, universities, the Internet industry, the manufacturers of digital media, and consumers."
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"I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools."
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"This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time."
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"One of our priorities should be to reduce our dependence on foreign oil."
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"I don't know the answer to that question. I don't think it matters to the fundamental question here because at bottom, this president believes in non-discrimination."
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"Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent."
Vote,
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"I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth."
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"I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me."
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"We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team."
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"If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well."
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"The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence."
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"There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country."
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"Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee."
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"German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors."
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"The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture."
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"As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord."
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"In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades."
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"Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?"
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"Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding."
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"In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color."
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"James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had."
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"Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income."
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"So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress."
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"The state of our state needs serious attention."
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"Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press."
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"We are also working on the restoration of salmon runs, and we are doing a new process of mass marking with these fish so we can tell the wild fish from the hatchery fish."
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"If it was really successful, it was a life calling, a career I was excited about doing, so I didn't think the overall risk was anywhere near as high as what the reward was."
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"Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one."
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"There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered."
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"Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us."
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"The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed."
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"But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions."
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"The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families."
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"In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security."
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"There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there."
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"So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community."
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"People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then?"
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"I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher."
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"I understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins."
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"Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate."
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