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Quotes by Public-servant
"A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you."
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"It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand."
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"We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we're doing is appropriate action taken in an abundance of caution under the circumstances. And I believe it's the right thing to do."
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"I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce."
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"When you poll all of the economists, uh, across America that I think are intellectually honest they would all, or maybe not all, but 95% of them 96% of them would say you know we really have got a powerful economy."
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"Justice is incidental to law and order."
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"The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him."
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"Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces."
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"In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems."
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"The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target."
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"You couldn't have done this without killing an Arab prince."
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"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance."
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"The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists."
27
"I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here."
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"Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose."
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"I have to admit, in January and February I was in an absolute fuzz. I had no one on board. It wasn't that I didn't know what I was doing, but we didn't have all the pieces put together."
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"Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'"
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"I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president."
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"If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration."
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"However, I keep reminding them that this issue is not a new issue that has come out for this election. This issue has been in the courts for two years and two months now."
26
"The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal."
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"Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river."
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"Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy."
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"The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too."
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"I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy."
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"Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together."
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"The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book."
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"Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to."
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"A similar revolving fund could be set up for Germany, for a durable peace can rest only upon a Germany that, while militarily impotent, is industrially active."
23
"The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues."
23
"As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities."
23
"The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That's the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he's not captured by us. We know that."
23
"The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair."
23
"We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships."
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"If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence."
23
"Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table."
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"We've got a major problem in our culture, as it relates to the Internet and pornography and child pornography."
23
"For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem."
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"Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo."
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"We must be loyal to the forum of our government."
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"We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony."
23
"The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany."
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"Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Canada. Because this is a dairy cow, they're all individually tagged."
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"It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives."
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"Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture."
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"The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy."
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