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NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.

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We are not prepared to consider special category status for certain groups of people serving sentences for crime. Crime is crime is crime, it is not political

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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

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If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all.

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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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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

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I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.

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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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We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.

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In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

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No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

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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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MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.

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Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

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I am mindful that we're all sinners.

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I am mindful that we're all sinners.

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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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After all, religion has been around a lot longer than Darwinism.

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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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