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Some of Donald Trump's gifts that obviously allowed him to execute one of the biggest political upsets in history, those are ones that hopefully he will put to good use on behalf of all the American people.

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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

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In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.

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A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all that resists it. But he encounters the power of others, and comes to an arrangement, a union, with those that are like him: thus they work together to serve the will to power. And the process goes on.

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There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing. Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.

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Over my tenure as governor, I have come not only to respect the political muscle of the Federation; I've come to respect the brains. All of us depend on your efforts and energies.

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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

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Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

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Whatever it took to help Taiwan defend theirself.

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The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting together. It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.

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If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

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Our nation must come together to unite.

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

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

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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

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About 14 percent of our nation's civilian workforce is foreign-born.

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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

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Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.

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