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Quotes by Public-servant
"We know that there are various activities important to the insurgents in Iraq that are occurring in Syria."
Iraq,
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"The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events."
48
"The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany."
48
"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."
48
"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."
48
"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."
48
"Evil prospers when good men do nothing."
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"We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers."
48
"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."
48
"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."
48
"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."
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"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."
48
"The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it."
48
"Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses."
48
"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."
47
"The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'well done'."
47
"I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance."
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"The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about their health care, about their ability to educate their kids, stay in their homes and own their homes, send their kids to college, the basic pillars of a middle-class life, if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country, these things will take care of themselves."
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"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,
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"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."
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"I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking."
47
"And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children."
47
"We cannot go up on a wire. We cannot do a search without a judge on the FISA Court approving it and determining that we have met the standard that has been set forth by Congress in order to utilize these techniques."
47
"Afghanistan is a land-locked country."
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"The Iraqi elections were an important first step."
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"Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking."
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"The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy."
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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."
47
"Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself."
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"Arresting and detaining these dangerous people can make sense, at least until a final decision is reached on their deportation. However, such detention must always be subject to time limits and court review."
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"Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson."
47
"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."
47
"We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act."
47
"Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace."
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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."
46
"The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins."
46
"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."
46
"It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution."
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"We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked."
46
"Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong."
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"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."
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"I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction."
46
"Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains."
46
"The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason."
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"Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me."
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"Ours is a colourful and diversified world. It is also a complex one."
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"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."
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