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"I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty."
"The only truly shocking thing about last Tuesday's election is that the Democrats didn't do far worse, or as badly as they deserved."
"The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality."
"For Conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing."
"Never did anyone ever stay longer than ten years because the resistance grows fiercer as your presence grows longer [in Afghanistan]. I don't think we are going to be any exception. What made us exempt from history?"
"It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders."
"It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents."
"If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free."
"Glenn Beck has Nazi Tourettes'."
"If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action."
"Politics are a labyrinth without a clue."
"The economic answer to the world's problems is John Adams, not [Karl] Marx."
"There is no more great men; there is only great committees."
"I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days."
"The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy."
"Health care is a right, not a privilege."
"It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy."
"I love this country for several reasons, not the least of which is that I know I'm allowed to hate it if I want to."
"Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field."
"Dennis Kucinich's politics are more scrambled than Rod Steiger's dream journal."
