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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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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

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Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.

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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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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

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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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The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

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Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person.

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I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

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If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

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Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

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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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It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

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Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.

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In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.

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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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Medicare in particular, will run out of money, and we will not be able to sustain that program.

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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

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My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes.

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