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Quotes by Vice-president
"If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States."
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"With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power."
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"It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America."
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"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world."
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"The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us."
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"How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?"
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"I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years."
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"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."
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"The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives."
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"It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups."
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"Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love."
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"As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy."
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"Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?"
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"In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself."
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"The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century."
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"This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy."
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"Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided."
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"The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other."
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"Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States."
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"Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise."
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"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change."
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"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."
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"No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security."
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"Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity."
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"It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship."
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"It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice."
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"Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!"
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"I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy."
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"The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned."
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"In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster."
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"They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead."
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"Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity."
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"It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes."
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"Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world."
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"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future."
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"Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community."
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"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'"
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"What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us."
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