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PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

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A human being is a naturally political [animal].

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That's a chapter - the last chapter - of the 20th ... 20th ... the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century.

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I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

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There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.

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Governor Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.

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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.

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Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

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How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.

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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

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Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

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T's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.

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I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.

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There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done ... Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.

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I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm interested to know.

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It's going to require numerous IRA agents.

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With respect to Syria, we are going to continue to work as we have over the last five, six years to push towards a political transition and settlement.

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Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

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I've watched politics for years. Republicans rarely get credit for the good things that happen in the economy during their watch. Democrats always get more credit than they deserve. They are just better at political discourse that we are.

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