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• Coalition will come sooner or later, I'm certain of that.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Certain, Sooner Or Later

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• It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always been the success of a single victor. Coalition successes bear by the very nature of their origin the germ of future crumbling, in fact of the loss of what has already been achieved. Great, truly world-shaking revolutions of a spiritual nature are not even conceivable and realizable except as the titanic struggles of individual formations, never as enterprises of coalitions.

  Adolf Hitler

  Spiritual, Struggle, Loss

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• Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Enemy, Looks, Wages

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• If we dwell in a community that is comfortable, then it's probably not broad enough a coalition.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Community, Democracy, Enough

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• We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.

  John Lewis

  America, Soul, Helping

  "The Long March of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

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• There will be no surprises and no excuses from a Coalition government, Barrie.

  Tony Abbott

  Government, No Excuses, Surprise

  "Insiders" with Barrie Cassidy, www.abc.net.au. September 1, 2013.

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• American fascism will not be really dangerous until there is a purposeful coalition among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information, and those who stand for the K.K.K. type of demagoguery.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Information, Type, Dangerous

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• You have to have coalitions in order to make change in America.

  Sarah Schulman

  Order, America

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The country has always been governed by a coalition but today it is governed by a so-called Grand Coalition which is a more polite word for all and sundry.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Country, Humorous

  George Mikes (1969). “The Prophet Motive: Israel Today and Tomorrow”

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• In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity - and it was an atrocity.

  Oliver Stone

  Sorry, Regret, Hard Work

  "Oliver Stone: ‘Jewish Domination Of The Media’ Propagates Holocaust Myths". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2010.

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• I think it should be made clear that the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, they have not got into bed together; they are merely sharing a room.

  Gyles Brandreth

  Thinking, Government, Together

  The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, September 24, 2010.

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• Increased coalition presence feeds the notion of occupation. It contributes to the dependency of Iraqi security forces on the coalition, ... It extends the amount of time that it will take for Iraqi security forces to become self-reliant. And it exposes more coalition forces to attacks.

  George W. Casey, Jr.

  Self, Occupation, Force

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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?

  Margaret Thatcher

  America, Allies, Nuclear

  "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher (p. 49), April 16, 2002.

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• It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.

  Yvette Clarke

  Rights, August, Memorial

  "Black History Is American History" by Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2010.

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• I have met with political leaders, legislators, and diplomats, seeking the next steps to press in reducing and eliminating the nuclear threat in this century. I have participated in public coalitions developing programmes for action to combat the global rash of small arms. All are trying and making a difference.

  Michael Douglas

  Nuclear Disarmament, Differences, Leader

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• This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings Bryan and Carl Schurz. It is far more accurate and illuminating however, to view it as a three-cornered fight. The third group was a coalition of businessmen, intellectuals, and politicians who opposed traditional colonialism and advocated instead a policy of an open door through which America's preponderant economic strength would enter and dominate all underdeveloped areas of the world.

  William Appleman Williams

  Fighting, Doors, Views

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• I don't think polarization is some kind of grand distraction. It's real. People have different commitments, believe in different things and principles, different visions of the good life ... but there is also a degree to which all the really big, successful reform movements in the country had extremely bizarre ideological coalitions.

  Chris Hayes

  Country, Good Life, Real

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government

  Tony Abbott

  Government, Taxes

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• It is important not to allow ever wider coalition-building to become an end in itself. As we saw in the Gulf War of 1990, international pressures, particularly those exerted from within an alliance, can result in the failure to follow actions through and so leave future problems unresolved.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Important, Alliances

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• The Democratic Party might be called the Takings Coalition, made up of groups that want the government to take from American citizens -- usually cash -- and keep it for itself.

  Grover Norquist

  Party, Government, Groups

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• We now have a satisfactory solution not only to coalition forces, but also to the Iraqi authorities themselves.

  John Prescott

  Authority, Force, Solutions

  "Prescott Triumphs on Slippery Slopes of Syntax" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2004.

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• I saw my job [as president] as to try to move the world from an unstable condition of interdependence toward more integrated cooperative world community. Therefore, my approach was to cooperate wherever possible and to build institutions of cooperation, an expanded NATO, the World Trade Organization, the Summit of the Americas, the Asian Pacific Leaders, all those, the coalition to fight in Bosnia and Kosovo, to cooperate wherever possible but to act alone if we had to.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Moving, Fighting

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• As a politician - particularly as a politician in a coalition - you quickly realise that compromise is a part of the game. But there are some issues where you have to draw the line - where you have to stand up and be counted, and you have to do the right thing. I think climate change is firmly in that category.

  Edward Davey

  Thinking, Games, Issues

  "Prince Charles attacks global warming sceptics" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2013.

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• We need a broad-based coalition that is way beyond the bounds of Christianity to be able to help people to understand that there is a groundswell of support for the marriage amendment and for opposition to same-sex marriages.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Sex, People, Support

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.

  Vince Cable

  Government, Swings, Minorities

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