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"The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience."
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"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future."
"Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee."
"You couldn't not notice the bruise on the side of her face. Or the hickey under her chin."
"Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects."
"Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline."
"Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse."
"But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them."
"To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status."
"The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world."
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"Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA."
"If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld."
"Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all."
"We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette."
"The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country."
"In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre."
"Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now."
"It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires."
"Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard."
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