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Quotes by Public-servant
"If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them."
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"I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime."
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"An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs."
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"But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement."
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"I would never say President Obama doesn't have the capacity to continue to serve because of his statement that there are 56 states."
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"The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services."
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"The other part of our proposal that gets the 'dittoheads' upset is our suggestion that the commercial radio station owners either play by the rules or pay. In other words, if they don't want to be subject to local criticism of how they are meeting their license obligations, they should pay to support public broadcasters who will operate on behalf of the local community."
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"And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers, because they just see what's happening."
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"Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others."
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"At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer."
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"A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals."
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"Until the day I die, or until the day I can't think anymore, I want to be involved in the issues that I care about."
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"The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it."
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"We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father."
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"Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action."
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"Silence is sometimes the severest criticism."
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"He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?"
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"As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past."
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"I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security."
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"Now, the impact on export markets - we export about 10 percent of what we produce, so obviously that will probably have some impact on the market. At this point it's too early to determine how much."
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"Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand."
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"We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured."
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"Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates."
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"I am now the target of the most powerful man in this country, with an army of aides whose major responsibility today seems to be to attack me and get rid of me."
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"You will see the President being very, very tough on spending."
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"We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small."
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"The mainstream media showed, for example, no blood and guts resulting from the 9/11 attacks."
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"Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out."
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"I think what we ought to be focusing on is that we are on path for the release of 75,000 pages of documents in connection with John Roberts' work in the White House, as in the counselor's office and as his time working as an assistant in the office of the attorney general."
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"You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand."
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"I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes."
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"There are opportunities in the pharmaceutical industry, the insurance industry, so yes back home we are talking about investment opportunities in Morocco for various sectors of our economy and we will continue to do that."
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"HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country."
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"It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible."
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"But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information."
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"A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war."
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"We will not support returning Fannie and Freddie to the role they played before conservatorship, where they fought to take market share from private competitors while enjoying the privilege of government support."
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"Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people."
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"I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt."
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"I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row."
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"When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions."
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"I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious."
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"In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and local law enforcement."
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"I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa."
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"We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households."
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"Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular."
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"First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict."
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"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."
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