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"767 Politics Quotes

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

Ideas Class Epoch Ruling
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Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

Party Continue Strike Fear
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I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.

Agreement Any Armed Assure
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Price Good Evil Rule
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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill … we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

Presume City State Eloquent
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Liberty Most Extreme Slavery
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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Object State Whole Class
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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

State Person Ought Good
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Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Democracy Form Government Variety
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There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

Form Strategy Confidence Succeed
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“We got to fight the system, because God never made no difference between black, white, blue, pink or green. People is people, y’know. That’s the message we try to spread.”

Blue People Green Message
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When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

Affordable Again Care Congress
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I've always affirmed, nobody's ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian.

Ambition Worth Blood Nigerian
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When you fight corruption, it fights back.

You Fight Corruption Back
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Nigerians need not vilify those who disagree with us politically, or treat them as less patriotic or even as felons.

Treat Vilify Patriotic Disagree
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I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

Politicians Nature Sector Great
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I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

Smarts Patience Office Have
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I always thought our problem was our leaders until I joined politics and realized the people are also a big part of the problem.

Always Problem Thought Leaders
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences

Anywhere Art Been Beyond
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Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.

Ecosystem Politicians Apathy Voting
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I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up.

Painting Racist Black President
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I have healthy disagreements with political parties I'm not aligned with, but I don't think it should be to the point where we're cursing and trying to strangle each other.

Trying Point Strangle Cursing
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Before any American points a finger at President Putin and calls him nasty names, they should recognize that a lot of Americans agree with Putin on his stance against homosexual and transgender people.

Against Homosexual Transgender People
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I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.

Communicate Higher Practical Level
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When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self esteem are shattered, to say nothing of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment protections. The damage goes deep quickly and stays. Stop & frisk, as well as a tactic, is also an incitement.

Frisk Tactic Incitement White
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The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?

First Process Argument Older
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In the comfort of our offices, let us not forget that majority of our people live below the poverty line.

Comfort Line Majority Forget
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Where there is no opportunity for one man one vote, there will be no accountability and no responsibility.

Vote Opportunity Responsibility Man
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Nobody should rig for me. I am assuring Nigerians that though I am contesting, nobody must manipulate votes in my favour. Our votes must count.

Count Vote Favour Manipulate
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I congratulate the candidates of the other political parties. I regard them not as opponents but as partners.

Regard Parties Partner Opponent
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I believe in the politics of give and take.
Take Believe Give Politics
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Separation of power is not separation of government.
Government Power Separation Not
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We are all Nigerians and I will be a President to all. This is the new dawn we crave.
Crave Dawn Nigerians New
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Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

Democracy Experience Foundation History
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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Judges Inferences Law Torture
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

Because Being Feeling Flourish
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The decisive means for politics is violence.

Decisive Means Politics Violence
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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Politics Entertainment Industry Brach
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Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes.

Environmental Air Water Votes
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Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics.

Either Lives Off Politics
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Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.
Censorship Should Never Allowed
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I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism.

Believe That Victories Defeats
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And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

Sure Have If Political
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Dumb Enough Intelligent IntelligentPeople
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It's often said that look at the message and not the messenger, but there are times when you can only decipher the message by looking at the messenger.

Message Often Looking Times
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The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

Appears Art Challenge Impossible
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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Accident Bet Happens Nothing
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In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

Down Economic Else Go
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I'm much more concerned about America than the Democratic Party.

About America Concerned Democratic
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Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
Art Controlling Environment Politics
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