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Quotes by Public-servant
"You couldn't have done this without killing an Arab prince."
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"Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire."
66
"A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you."
65
"The place where we don't agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance companies and whether they should be allowed to run wild. We believe there should be some restraint; some on the other side don't think so."
64
"Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river."
63
"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."
63
"The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him."
62
"In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China."
62
"The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too."
62
"For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide."
61
"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."
61
"Prior to September 11, we thought the world beyond our shores was one world of risk and the world in our continent was another world of risk."
60
"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."
60
"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."
60
"I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me."
60
"God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis."
59
"Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy."
59
"I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet."
58
"But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it."
57
"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."
57
"Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces."
57
"As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital and research and development."
57
"People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run."
57
"This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats."
57
"If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a very high level of consistency, and there is a sense that he is who he is. Obama's governing is completely consistent with the way he campaigned and the themes on which he campaigned, the issues he highlighted, the vision he shared."
57
"It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand."
56
"It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery."
56
"Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment."
56
"We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships."
56
"I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions."
56
"I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president."
56
"The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority."
55
"The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues."
55
"But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results."
55
"Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large."
55
"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."
55
"Europe is a collection of free countries."
55
"The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force."
54
"Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture."
54
"Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks."
54
"It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime."
54
"All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're doing that in the Justice Department."
54
"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."
54
"The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a long-term or permanent extension, and that would hurt economic recovery as well by undermining confidence that we're prepared to make a commitment today to bring down our future deficits."
54
"You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are."
54
"The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal."
53
"Justice is incidental to law and order."
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