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Quotes by Public-servant
"We must remember, too, that the Russian population of the Caucasus are to a large extent Muslims, and the areas such as Georgia which have aspirations of their own."
60
"Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this."
60
"It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches."
60
"I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both."
59
"I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy."
59
"I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user requirements for access."
Key,
59
"My overall message for labor members is... that we understand that the benefits of trade are clear, but the disruption and the dislocation are painfully concentrated and we can't ignore them."
59
"Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains."
59
"A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased."
59
"Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans - and there were many such bitter policy disputes - the purposes and goals for which Americans fought were clearly understood."
59
"This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself."
59
"The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world."
59
"So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the president would have been periodically briefed."
59
"Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us."
59
"A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare."
59
"A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail."
59
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance."
59
"The Iraq conflict, while not a cause of extremism, has become a cause for extremists."
59
"I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court."
59
"Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners."
58
"I bring other constituencies - I also have ties to minority communities. And obviously, to the world of world-class research universities. So I can bring some constituencies that I'm used to working with."
58
"I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times."
58
"We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked."
58
"There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing that parents need to be able to evaluate, and students themselves, when they make a selection."
58
"If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King."
58
"I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement."
58
"Well we are hoping that the power of the community of free nations is such that our sovereignty our rights are not going to be challenged by anybody who's going try to undermine the freedom, the openness of our societies and our security."
58
"Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know."
58
"Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about."
58
"Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution."
58
"The most important and urgent appeal we have to make is for an immediate cease-fire. Initial reports from the cease-fire talks being held in N'Djamena in Chad are not very encouraging."
58
"We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare."
58
"When President Jiang Zemin visited India in 1996, the two sides decided that they would jointly build a constructive partnership of cooperation oriented towards the 21st century."
58
"That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval."
57
"Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms."
57
"Afghanistan is a land-locked country."
57
"The Iraqi elections were an important first step."
57
"We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy."
57
"The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug."
57
"But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide."
57
"I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor."
57
"Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses."
57
"For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem."
57
"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year."
56
"The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany."
56
"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."
56
"The president really shouldn't be involved in terms of dictating what course the investigation should take."
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