"Everybody knows politics is a contact sport."
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"I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face."
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"Donald Trump pulled off an amazing political feat. He deserves tremendous credit for that."
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"It's no coincidence that trust in government is at an all-time low now that the size of government is at an all-time high."
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"Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you."
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"... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge."
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"We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best."
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"No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time. In the domestic field there is tranquillity and contentment, harmonious relations between management and wage earner, freedom from industrial strife, and the highest record of years of prosperity."
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"In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you."
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"Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them."
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"I keep wondering if everybody on the political left had someone who they were separated at birth from."
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"We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom."
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"Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation."
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"Public opinion in this country is everything."
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"He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make."
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"I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions."
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"Our politics is very masculine, very aggressive, and it's very polarizing. And the pace of this development has increased in recent years. Erdogan is, in my eyes, the most polarizing politician in recent Turkish political history."
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"The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument."
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"It takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy."
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"At EMILY's List, we’re in the business of expanding the political power of women."
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