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It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term.

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Both President Kennedy and President Reagan were roundly criticized by parts of the foreign policy establishment that felt they were being weak by engaging our adversaries. So some of it is built into a political lexicon that makes you sound tougher if you don't talk to somebody, and rather, very loudly, wield a big stick.

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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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Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.

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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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Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.

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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

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Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.

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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

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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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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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Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

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Our nation must come together to unite.

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Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

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Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.

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I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

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The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.

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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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I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police into a political instrument of the highest State authority.

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