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“People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.” quote by Tony Blair — Download Open image

“People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.”

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I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if…

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I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.

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I mean, you can agree or disagree with Iraq or Afghanistan, but by the way, now the great campaigning cause out there is the…

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My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she…

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Politics may be the art of the possible, but at least in life, give the impossible a go.

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I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all…

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It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.

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I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime minister and…

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Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.

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The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for

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People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.

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The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually,…

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has taken American politics by storm.

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Here's the point - and Jonah Goldberg reminds us of this. He wrote a blog post that was titled "The MacGuffinization of American Politics." Do you know what a MacGuffin is? "'In a movie or book, 'The MacGuffin' is the thing the hero wants,' Ace writes." So in the Maltese Falcon, for example, the hero wants the Maltese Falcon, but…

Hart is still like that little tub of vaguely milklike gunk that comes with airline coffee. It is labeled a "nondairy" product. Fine: we know what is is non, but what is it?

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

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Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?

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We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and…

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For even the most seasoned observers of American politics, Barack Obama is a phenomenon.

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“The CIA is behind it all. That’s the conclusion of Mae Brussell—one of America’s foremost assassination experts—a researcher who has collected every pertinent newspaper story, every book, every document since the Watergate break-in four years ago on the night of June 17, 1972. Mae Brussell is the only person in America who perceived the gruesome string of deaths that stretches…

We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We…

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You know, compromise can't be a dirty word in American politics. There's plenty to argue about. Trump administration is still talking about ridiculous tax…

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In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization, the rise…

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Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.

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