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We have to get rid of those atomic weapons, here and everywhere. We cannot live with them.

We have a strategic opportunity to put the peace process back on track and we cannot afford to lose it,

We have asked the government to come clean and explain its stand. Under the circumstances, there is no way the government cannot but come forward and explain its stand. It's the government's national duty to explain.

We have no reason to believe any of that ... These are rumors, we cannot comment on something that doesn't exist.

We have no idea who is doing this, but we cannot tolerate this kind of behavior. Certainly, we support the free expression of ideas, but the freedom to do so must not come at the expense of the rights of others.

We have never agreed to have a supervised meeting or visit a place where we cannot have full access to all detainees,

No matter how many troops we have in place or how long they stay, we cannot impose a parliamentary democracy there any more than the insurgents can impose a theocracy.

Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be passed on to the next generation. Now with technology, as it happens, we might indeed be able to transfer some of our acquired traits on to our selected offspring by genetic engineering.

You've got to take responsibility for your own actions. We all know people who reach rock bottom. However much that they're told that what they're doing is harming their own life or whatever, you cannot make someone do it unless that person reaches the point where they know that they have to deal with it themselves.

When you go into the other guy's backyard you cannot hope to win on points.