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" In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

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" 'V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human. "

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" There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency. "

" The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

" In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in. "

" When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. "

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" I didn't come up through the ranks of the conservative movement... I came to these revelations about my own personal politics in a realm in which those books, those ideas, the canon of conservatism, is nonexistent. "

Andrew Breitbart

" Life is to be entered upon with courage. "

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" Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. "

" Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing. "

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" I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

" Politics are not the task of a Christian. "

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

" Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion. "

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" The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. "

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" I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me. "

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