Political Quotes
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Haitians weren't screwed-up, but everything political, intellectual, and material around them is.
P. J. O'Rourke
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We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system.
Fidel Castro
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I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.
Ben Bernanke
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From the time, I have been in politics, your love has kept me going. All Gujaratis have all right on me, but you have now shared that right with the people of India.' 'It's the first poll in my political life when I didn't have political sabha in Ahmedabad.
Narendra Modi
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The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans?
David Plouffe
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I strongly believe that every American should always be rooting for our president to do well, no matter which political party that he or she might belong to.
Joe Manchin
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I stand, said Mr. Fox, upon this great principle. I say that the people of England have a right to control the executive power, by the interference of their representatives in this House of parliament. The right honourable gentleman William Pitt maintains the contrary. He is the cause of our political enmity.
Charles James Fox
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The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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We live in an age that's very suspicious of preachy political rhetoric, which means that there's room for art that approaches these issues from the side - as satire, as parody, or as a kind of outlandish speculative proposition.
Jess Row
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The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes.
Boris Trajkovski
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
Jerry Garcia
Grateful Dead
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And it's absolutely hypocritical for the political party that talks about states rights, to suddenly ignore states rights, that say that the federal government or federalism has no business in this kind of business.
Gary Ackerman
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Overwhelmingly, Israel's political and military establishment want the rest of the world to act diplomatically or otherwise to stop Iran. But if that doesn't happen, then the impulse toward the use of force will become quite strong.
Dennis Ross
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America is a country ready to be taken-in fact, longing to be taken-by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
Arianna Huffington
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To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
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There's this idea of America that some people have to win and some have to lose, so certain things are in place to make this happen. Some people have to be the next legislators and political elites, and some have to fill the prisons and work in McDonald's. That's how America works. It's a machine which needs people up top and people down low.
Jaylen Brown
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If you scroll through all the movies I've worked on, you can understand how I was a specialist in westerns, love stories, political movies, action thrillers, horror movies, and so on. So in other words, I'm no specialist, because I've done everything. I'm a specialist in music.
Ennio Morricone
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If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.
Zaha Hadid
