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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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I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.

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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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Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.

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I think by not participating in the current political debate, hopefully I'm sending a signal that will help set a tone.

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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

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Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

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It's very important for folks to understand that when there's more trade, there's more commerce.

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I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective.

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The question is: How do we succeed in Iraq? And you don't succeed by leaving before the mission is complete, like some in this political process are suggesting.

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Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

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My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.

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There ought to be limits to freedom.

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If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

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Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.

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But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

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A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation.

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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.

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If the East Timorians decide to revolt, Im sure Ill have a statement.

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