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James F. Byrnes

"That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement."

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"That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement."

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"I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do."

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"An agreement cannot be the result of an imposition."

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"Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement."

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"The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens."

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Amber Hurdle

"The mongers brought them together upon a mutual surrender of their principles."

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Amber Hurdle

"Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt."

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Amber Hurdle

"We had an eyeball-to-eyeball agreement at a restaurant before I came back that, if I came back, he would never talk to me that way again or I was simply saying no."

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Amber Hurdle

"There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them."

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Amber Hurdle

"Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives."

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"We have helped to organize the United Nations. We believe it will stop aggressor nations from starting wars. Because we believe it, we intend to support the United Nations organization with all the power and resources we possess."
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"It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations."
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"Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression."
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"It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West."
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"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death."
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"The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy."
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"I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with our representatives the views of the United States Government as to some of the problems confronting us."
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"What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace."
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"German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors."
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"Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies."
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