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Quotes by Politician

"America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching."


"Let's use the energy of this historic year to propel us toward our shared vision of a greater Boston."

"I know supposedly God has anger, vengeance, and wrath, and if he doesn't have a sense of humor I'm in big trouble!"

"You can get over a million dollars worth of life insurance in case you die, but only eight to ten bucks and hour to live."


"We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own."

"But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League."

"The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions."

"By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam."

"Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace."

"There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster."


"All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals."

"Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly."

"You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence."

"I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution."

"Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace."

"The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them."


"Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government."


"Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases, countries that have worked with us and have used our financial facilities have come out quick... more quickly and in a better shape from a crisis than would have come out otherwise."

"Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance."

"I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence."

"They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council."

"Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world."

"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."

"Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger."


"A defendant on trial for a specific crime is entitled to his day in court, not in a stadium or a city or nationwide arena."

"Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours."

"I'm used to being cut out of the conference meetings, but now they are cutting us out even before the bill's are written or either the House or Senate Acts."

"I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it."

"I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you."

"Laughter and imagination can overcome any ill-felt sensations."

"I do not intend, we do not intend, that any party shall survive, if we can help it, that will lay the confiscating hand upon Americans in the interest of England or of Europe."

"Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing."


"Employer contribution pension plans have become increasingly popular throughout the past two decades."

"National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country."

"An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth."


"While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners."

"As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality."

"The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected."

"I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time."

"Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people."

"It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a bastardization of what should be done."

"The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them."

"You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses."

"What I want the Congress of the United States to do, and frankly what I would like to see the President of the United States of America do, is speak a word of support to the people of Iran."

"Well, you know, the violence is mostly in Mexico itself, at least the violence that people are worried about. And so we want to make sure that violence does not spill over into our communities that are along the border."
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