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"An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country."
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Bainbridge Colby
"An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country."
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"Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it."
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Jim Garrison
"Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it."
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"Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values."
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Arthur Levitt
"Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values."
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"South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon."
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William Colby
"South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon."
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"One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play."
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C. Everett Koop
"One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play."
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"But I can tell you that the issue, on one side, boils down to money - a lot of money. And it boils down to people and their connections with this money, and that's the portion that, even with this book, has not been mentioned to this day."
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Sibel Edmonds
"But I can tell you that the issue, on one side, boils down to money - a lot of money. And it boils down to people and their connections with this money, and that's the portion that, even with this book, has not been mentioned to this day."
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"An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this."
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Hans Frank
"An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this."
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"The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous."
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Brent Scowcroft
"The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous."
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"We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe."
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Richard Perle
"We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe."
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"Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class."
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C. Everett Koop
"Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class."
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"If these assets were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import raw materials for its industries, Japanese exports could again enter the channels of world trade-and Japanese workers would have employment and something to eat."
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James Forrestal
"If these assets were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import raw materials for its industries, Japanese exports could again enter the channels of world trade-and Japanese workers would have employment and something to eat."
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"Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do."
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Alexis Herman
"Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do."
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"As of now, I am in control here in the White House."
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Alexander Haig
"As of now, I am in control here in the White House."
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"It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich."
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Hans Frank
"It was also my idea that the advisory committees of the Academy should replace the legal committees of the German Reichstag, which was gradually fading into the background in the Reich."
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"A Bush Administration will, I believe, enjoy a better relationship with the new Congress, although President-elect Bush will be faced with real challenges in getting along with the Congress."
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Richard V. Allen
"A Bush Administration will, I believe, enjoy a better relationship with the new Congress, although President-elect Bush will be faced with real challenges in getting along with the Congress."
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"That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts."
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Mario Monti
"That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts."
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"The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly."
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Dorothy Denning
"The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly."
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"I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule."
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Donna Shalala
"I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule."
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"With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests."
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Dorothy Denning
"With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests."
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"And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality."
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Margaret Spellings
"And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality."
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"There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade."
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Douglas Feith
"There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade."
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"I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963."
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Pierre Salinger
"I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963."
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"In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty."
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Richard Perle
"In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty."
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"But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car."
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Donna Shalala
"But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car."
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"The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this."
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David Axelrod
"The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this."
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"The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals."
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Peter Stuyvesant
"The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals."
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"Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions."
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Douglas Feith
"Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions."
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"So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature."
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Brent Scowcroft
"So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature."
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"America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty."
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Bainbridge Colby
"America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty."
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"Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry."
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Margaret Spellings
"Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry."
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"But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely."
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Allen Weinstein
"But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely."
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"In the light of the actual fighting that is now in progress, we have reached the point where the military considerations clearly outweigh the fiscal considerations."
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Louis A. Johnson
"In the light of the actual fighting that is now in progress, we have reached the point where the military considerations clearly outweigh the fiscal considerations."
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"I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap."
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Margaret Spellings
"I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap."
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"Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive."
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Bruce Jackson
"Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive."
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"In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources."
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Jan Egeland
"In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources."
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"Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine."
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Robert Moses
"Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine."
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"We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population."
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Jan Egeland
"We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population."
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"The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat."
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John Pistole
"The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat."
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"I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be."
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Janet Reno
"I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be."
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"My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job."
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C. Everett Koop
"My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job."
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"Financial crises require governments."
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Timothy Geithner
"Financial crises require governments."
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"I'm not in the business of harassing anybody."
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Jim Garrison
"I'm not in the business of harassing anybody."
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"I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984."
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Samuel Wilson
"I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984."
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"It's a different world."
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John Ashcroft
"It's a different world."
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"I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy."
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Frank Knox
"I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy."
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"No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family."
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J. Edgar Hoover
"No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family."
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"We want to continue the efforts against domestic violence and spread the drug courts, and develop real effective means of providing treatment for drug abusers without having to have them arrested."
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Janet Reno
"We want to continue the efforts against domestic violence and spread the drug courts, and develop real effective means of providing treatment for drug abusers without having to have them arrested."
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"What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation."
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Gale Norton
"What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation."
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"And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings."
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Sibel Edmonds
"And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings."
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"It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years."
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Alexander Haig
"It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years."
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