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Cannot Quotes
Our security and police forces are not properly trained. What happened in Alexandria is a security flop of gigantic proportions. And, it is an outrage. Poorly trained police are part of the problem. They are ill- equipped to ensure the safety of citizens and cannot cope with any crisis. They need proper professional training to handle such sensitive matters.
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Conduct Quotes
Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don't want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our private lives. Injecting religion into debates about public policy. Jumping through hoops to ingratiate themselves to their partys base, while step by step, day by day, real problems that keep American families up at night fall by the wayside here in Washington.
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Arafat Quotes
President Arafat has always wanted to go back to the peace process on the right basis. He was very clear. ... and said (the) Israeli attack has to stop first. The deployment of heavy forces and tanks and the disproportionate use of force has to end, and only this will be able to calm down the situation and bring back the peace process.
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Against Quotes
Patience is drawing on underlying forces, it is powerfully positive, though to a natural view it looks like just sitting it out. How would I persist against positive eroding forces if I were not drawing on invisible forces? And patience has a positive tonic effect on others; because of the presence of the patient person, they revive and go on, as if he were the gyroscope of the ship providing a stable ground. But the patient person himself does not enjoy it.
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Allied Quotes
Our only president who has died as U.S. commander in chief in war is Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who died of a cerebral hemorrhage or massive stroke on April 12, 1945, only three weeks before the unconditional surrender of the German armed forces he had laid down as implacable Allied policy two years before.
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Arab Quotes
Some of these forces have gained strength because of a lack of other alternatives. For decades the Middle East has been a political desert. . . . In much of the Muslim world Islam became the language of political opposition because it was the only language that could not be censored. This pattern, of dictators using religious groups to destroy the secular opposition, has played out in virtually every Arab country.
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Ability Quotes
My peers across the country have recognized my leadership ability by electing me as president of the National Association of Counties. My peers across the state have recognized my leadership ability by making me chair of TEX-21... Locally I head up several task forces and committees concerning transportation and other county matters.
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Battle Quotes
The armored battle group that will deploy brings important qualities of extensive training, experience and hard-edge combat capability. It is not the case, as is often implied, that there are 130,000 U.S. troops that could take on this task, ... In fact, fewer than a third of U.S. forces in Iraq have the requisite combat capability, and of those even fewer have the armored capability that is needed.
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Baghdad Quotes
While we transferred sovereignty today, we need to be honest with the American people that this struggle is far from over, ... Security in Iraq is worse now than it was right after the fall of Baghdad and may deteriorate further. The Iraqi security forces cannot handle the challenge alone, reconstruction has barely started, and massive unemployment has left many frustrated and even desperate.
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Among Quotes
Who among us is so certain of our identity? Who hasn't been asked, 'What's your background?' and hesitated, even for a split second, to answer their inquisitor. Howard Jacobson's 'The Finkler Question' forces us to ask that of ourselves, and that's why it's a must read, no matter what your background.