Politics

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[It's important to] create the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences.

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Corruption: the most aggressive cancer of any nation.

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We owe a responsibility not only to those who are in Israel but also to those generations that are no more, to those millions who have died within our lifetime, to Jews all over the world, and to generations of Jews to come. We hate war. We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown, and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

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The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections; we must close all loopholes.

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The Communist Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.

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The most violent party men are such as, in the conduct of their lives, have discovered least sense of religion or morality, and when such are laid aside as shall be found incorrigible, it will be no difficulty to reconcile the rest.

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But if Saddam had been in a position credibly to threaten America or any of its allies, or the coalition's forces, with attack by missiles with nuclear warheads, would we have gone to the Gulf at all?

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I absolutely do not pretend in the slightest fashion to knowledge of military science.

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If our nation had done nothing more in its whole history than to create just two documents, its contribution to civilization would be imperishable. The first of these documents is the Declaration of Independence and the other is that which we are here to honor tonight, the Emancipation Proclamation. All tyrants, past, present and future, are powerless to bury the truths in these declarations, no matter how extensive their legions, how vast their power and how malignant their evil.

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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.