Politician Quotes - Page 5

• I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

  Robert Kennedy

  Believe, Government, Long

  Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “A New Day: Robert F. Kennedy”

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• Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive employment, overcoming poverty and achieving social integration.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Mean, Creating, Hands

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• We as Aboriginal people still have to fight to prove that we are straight out plain human beings, the same as everyone else. You know, I grew up, born on a government blanket under a palm tree. I lived under lantana bushes, I've seen more dinner times than I've seen dinners, I've known discrimination, I've known prejudice, I've known all of those things... but some of that is still with us... and it's got to be changed.

  Neville Bonner

  Change, Leadership, Fighting

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• Water gushing out of thousands of springs at different places cannot move the wheels of a big engine to carry out very heavy tasks. But the channeled flow of the same water in the bed of a stream will, however, be irresistible and can become a source of tremendous energy.

  Gulzarilal Nanda

  Powerful, Spring, Moving

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• As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol.

  Barack Obama

  Weed, Kids, Thinking

  "Obama: Marijuana no more dangerous than alcohol", www.foxnews.com. January 19, 2014.

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• It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!

  Unknown

  Bible, God, Education

  Patrick Henry (2007). “Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries”, Warwick House Publishing

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• There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!

  Abraham Kuyper

  Religious, Jesus, Squares

  Abraham Kuyper, James D. Bratt (1998). “Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader”, p.461, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no 'Nigerians' in the same sense as there are 'English,' 'Welsh,' or 'French.' The word 'Nigerian' is merely a distinctive appellation to distinguish those who live within the boundaries of Nigeria and those who do not.

  Obafemi Awolowo

  Expression, Boundaries, Welsh

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  Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Dec 05, 2013

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• It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

  Vaclav Havel

  Inspiring, Success, Vision

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• When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  "Nation: Madam Candidate", content.time.com. February 7, 1964.

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• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

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• I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don't hurt anyone else in the process.

  Barry Goldwater

  Inspirational, Life, Hurt

  Barry Morris Goldwater, C. C. Goldwater (2007). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.129, Princeton University Press

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• I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. "Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege."

  Earl Warren

  Years, People, Upset

  The Reader's Digest, Vol. 116, (p. 43), 1980.

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• You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Fall, Acceptance, Fighting

  "They Never Said it: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions". Book by Paul F. Boller and John H. George, 1990.

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• My dream is to drop three atomic bombs on New York City.

  Raul Castro

  Dream, New York, Cities

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• I believe it is peace for our time.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Peace, Time, War

  Neville Chamberlain's "Peace For Our Time" Speech in front of 10 Downing St., eudocs.lib.byu.edu. September 30, 1938.

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• I believe that history is not made by cynics. It is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.

  Tzipi Livni

  Dream, Strong Women, Believe

  "Kerry Hopes To Defy Skeptics Of Mideast Peace Talks". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. July 31, 2013.

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• I love my country, not my government.

  Jesse Ventura

  Country, Patriotic, Government

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ventura from Jan 17, 2011

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• The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the possibility of federal encroachments. That their liberties, indeed, can be subverted by the federal head, is repugnant to every rule of political calculation.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Giving, Political

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.436

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• He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Friendship, Best Friend, God

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• The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool.

  Dennis Hastert

  Sports, Education, Athlete

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• Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.

  Benjamin Rush

  Religious, Time, Art

  Misattributed to Benjamin Rush in "Total Health and Restoration: A 180-Day Journey" by Terry Dorian, p. 49, 2002.

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• In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?

  Pablo Neruda

  Life, Rain, Fall

  Pablo Neruda (2001). “Libro de Las Preguntas”, p.66, Copper Canyon Press

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• The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies.

  Roman Abramovich

  Funny, Success, Sports

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