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Quotes by Public-servant
"If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration."
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"Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very small resources - a large group of people and we can now do even more."
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"Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality."
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"Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree."
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"Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries."
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"This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be here and asking what happened between 1933 and 1945. A lot of that will come up. I think this will make an important contribution to those discussions."
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"Russia knows of the vulnerability of her frontiers in this part of the world."
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"We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population."
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"In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn't move as fast as I'd like it to move."
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"My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule."
Fact,
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"Now, China, India have set goals. We're going to be able to review what they're doing. We're going to be able to challenge them if they don't meet those goals. We're going to pursue this anyway, because the President understands that our future lies with a clean energy economy. We've doubled renewables this year. There are millions of jobs to be had there, more energy security, so we're going to pursue this."
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"Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history."
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"There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago."
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"There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home."
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"And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent."
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"It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies."
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"Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother."
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"I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart."
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"We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place."
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"Unlike the Reagan and Bush Administrations, with but one exception, the Clinton administration failed to reach out to Republicans in creating a new team, and eventually paid a political price."
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"When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder."
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"There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals."
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"All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table."
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"So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants."
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"But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information."
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"Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up."
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"The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change."
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"It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives."
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"It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college."
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"Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression."
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"It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground."
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"Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents."
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"If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity."
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"I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness."
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"Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you."
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"I think we're not going to preserve Fannie and Freddie in anything like their current form. We're going to have to bring fundamental change to that market."
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"We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone."
Zone,
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"We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need."
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"The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated."
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"I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States."
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"What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world."
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"I am also actively involved in my church and its community activities. We have programs to improve the lives of our congregation and programs of outreach in the community."
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"The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information."
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"Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear."
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"This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don't have it today - a competitive marketplace: That's an idea that both sides embrace."
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"Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems."
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"By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world."
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"Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people."
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