Karen Hughes
Karen Hughes
Karen Parfitt Hughesis the global vice chair of the public relations firm Burson-Marsteller. She served as the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the U.S. Department of State and as a counsellor to United States President George W. Bush...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 December 1956
CountryUnited States of America
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Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to reach back, and I don't think that's happened and it's been disappointing because the debate in our country has become so rancorous.
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I think it's a very unseemly departure from tradition for the Senate majority leader to engage in that kind of partisanship when the U.S. president is carrying our country's message abroad.
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To every nation and every province and every local community across the globe that is standing with the American people and with those who hurt on the Gulf Coast, our entire nation thanks you for your support.
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He represents the people of Iran who want and deserve liberty. Let them run their own newspapers, too.
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I feel the pain that you are feeling, ... It is impossible to say that the plight of women was better under Saddam Hussein . Women were tortured, they had their children tortured in front of them.
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I did not expect, because I visited the Middle East, someone opposed to the war (in Iraq ) would change their mind. That's naive.
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I can't imagine that I would seek to approach this job and seek to reach out to a wider Muslim audience without first seeking the advice, opinions and input of our American Muslim community.
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I was just walking through the Bone Center and I heard someone singing so I just walked in and thought it sounded good. I enjoyed the whole thing.
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I am here to listen and to learn and to work to strengthen the relationship and close partnership between our two countries,
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But what I will challenge in any stories I see is any idea that we didn't want to help people. We certainly wanted to help everyone.
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I also go on long walks with my dog, a golden retriever named Breeze - and I work out with weights at a health club a couple of times a week.
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foster dialogue between my country and the people of Turkey.
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I expected a lot of people to disagree with our policy and they did,
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I would venture to guess that 99.9 percent of most Americans and probably most candidates could not answer who is the president of Chechnya.