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" A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. "

Charles W. Pickering

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" Trump represented a movement of dissatisfaction, the dissent, unhappiness, division cultivated by years of identity politics and the bullying of arrogant, insufferable, intolerant social justice warriors who used the last two terms to punish anyone who reminded them of Daddy. "

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" I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me. "

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" Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. "

" The money in politics is a cash cow for the media. "

" All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general. "

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" I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph. "

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" We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us. "

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