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It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
COLIN POWELL
This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.
HANNAH STORM
The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
BILLY JOEL
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And tune his merry note,
Unto the ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.
PATSY CLINE
I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain...
MUHAMMAD ALI
People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER
O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I was too young that time to value her,
But now I know her. If she be a traitor,
Why, so ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
If you don't think it.
You'll never do it!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with...
BEANIE SIGEL
Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I ...
SALLY QUINN
I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there&...
TA-NEHISI COATES
Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if y...
ADAM CLYMER
In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
GAYLE GARDNER
It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.
SIMON TRAVAGLIA
You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, an...
CASEY STENGEL
I think it still brings a lot of the same lessons that it brought 20 years ago. It's a snapshot of t...
CHARLES FULLER
When I wake up in the morning, I don't think of myself as being better than anybody else. I thin...
TONY GWYNN
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure tha...
MARK TWAIN
JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name?

ORLANDO: Yes, just.

JAQUES: I do not lik...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Here comes Monseiur Le Beau.
Rosalind: With his mouth full of news.
Celia: Which he will p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL
Colin is better than most people think. He is a solid, intelligent, fighter. He is up against it in ...
DAVE STEWART
A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
LARRY MCMURTRY
You can cry, ain't no shame in it.
WILL SMITH
I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.
NIGEL FARAGE
If you done it, it ain't bragging.
UNKNOWN
Career diversification ain't a bad thing.
VIN DIESEL
It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know th...
EDWIN ARMSTRONG
Who rules the world?… - It's for sure, ain't you!
DEYTH BANGER
It ain't bragging if you can do it.
DIZZY DEAN
All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If...
WENDELL BERRY
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain...
LEWIS CARROLL
Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.
DAVID EDWARDS
College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
OSSIE DAVIS
called Peter Wallison -- Told him Colin Powell had only minimum involvement on Iran.
CASPAR WEINBERGER
If you ain't Texan, I ain't got time for you.
KINKY FRIEDMAN
I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible...
NORMAN LEAR
You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.
DASHIELL HAMMETT
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
W. C. FIELDS
If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
AASIF MANDVI
If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or v...
LENNIE JAMES
Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ...
SCOTT ADAMS
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
You make the best out of it, you can. Nothing is ever as good or as bad as you think it will be. It'...
NICHOLE CHASE
It could be different tomorrow. Traffic is never really as bad in the morning as it is at night.
JEANIE SIMPSON
And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS
It ain't no joke when you lose your vinyl.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAA
It ain't the heat, it's the humility.
YOGI BERRA
called
Peter Wallison -- Told him Colin Powell had only minimum involvement on
Iran.
CASPAR WEINBERGER
You hit a wall at some stage when you don't want it so bad, but you don't know when that'...
JOHN MCENROE
It made it not look as bad, I guess, ... I think if we had a little more time, we could have had a b...
JOSH BETTS
If you ain't got your black hat, there ain't no use in filling out an application.
GREG MOORE
... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t...
DEYTH BANGER
I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller qual...
STEVE HARVEY
In the morning things will look better? Is that what else you were going to say?”
… “Thin...
RACHEL VAN DYKEN
The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never...
PETER BENCHLEY
All actors are my brothers and my sisters. It ain't cool to compare or disparage them. It ain...
MICHAEL KEATON
It ain't over till it's over.
YOGI BERRA
It ain't nothin' till I call it.
BILL KLEM
I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but...
COLIN FARRELL
You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
YOUNG JEEZY
As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain...
FRANK OCEAN
Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
YOGI BERRA
They may think that all military officers are George Patton, but what about Colin Powell? We're real...
ALAN ROGERS
I did tell the President that we need a lot of Colin Powell and very little of Rumsfeld
JOSE AZNAR
I did tell the President that we need a lot of Colin Powell and very little of Rumsfeld
JOSE MARIA AZNAR
I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingred...
JIM CARREY
I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that c...
EDWIN ARMSTRONG
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, y...
STEVE JOBS
Colin Powell has said over the years that Saddam Hussein is like a toothache. It recurs from time to...
ELAINE SCIOLINO
This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
JACKIE ROBINSON
I think I don't really have any expectations; I don't look at the season as a whole - I look...
CASEY STONER
There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned not...
LORRAINE HANSBERRY
The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling...
PETE DU PONT
I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS....
MAGIC JOHNSON
What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, ...
B. B. KING
I don't think anyone chooses the decathlon as much as it chooses you.
BRYAN CLAY
I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.
RED SKELTON
I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that a...
BUCK OWENS
I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.
ICE T
A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in th...
LEO BURNETT
Hate is a very strong and heavy emotion, probably as strong as love. I don't think I can live wi...
KARAN SINGH GROVER
Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
TOM WAITS
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY
It's too bad American electoral races aren't as transparent as NASCAR races.
STEVE BULLOCK
You are an adult and you don't understand me and what are the differences between the adult and the ...
DEYTH BANGER
When you say, "I can't do it!" - You never will.
But, if you say, "I'll give it a try," eventua...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
This is not as bad as it may look.
CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON
I don't think of the characters as being good or bad because that doesn't help me as a write...
BRYAN COGMAN
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
ELVIS PRESLEY
It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control.
SI ROBERTSON
You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain...
DAVID EDWARDS
Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But th...
CHRIS BROWN
As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
D. B. SWEENEY
Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration exc...
DONALD RUMSFELD
We are better than anyone, ain't we? Except for the Eagles, the Eagles are better than us.
SID VICIOUS

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Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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Either move or be moved.
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90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.
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Get mad, then get over it.
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Experts often possess more data than judgment.
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Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforti...
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Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough
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Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failu...
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Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approac...
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Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
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A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you hav...
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The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, ...
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It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a p...
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I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winni...
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When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be ...
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But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you&#...
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In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a no...
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If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity wit...
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There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the...
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Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But y...
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You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda....
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Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
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The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an o...
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Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, t...
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You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nati...
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I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but th...
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Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.
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Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
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Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
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I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriag...
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It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political s...
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Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad ...
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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excel...
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Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in...
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Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigila...
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They find all kinds of excuses, a thousand excuses -- 'There are spies on this team. We don't want t...
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you can't find actual germs on them.
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We must not walk away, ... We must not find ourselves here this coming November with the pressure re...
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Last month President Bush announced a pledge of $200 million to jump-start the global fund -- a bold...
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When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll l...
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The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
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I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that wi...
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does not seek dominion.
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Where human rights and freedoms flourish, terrorists and tyrants do not thrive and conflict and chao...
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advance America's foreign policy interests overseas - the backbone of our foreign affairs.
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We'll certainly know tomorrow when NATO meets, but every indication I have now is that NATO is comin...
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Everybody knows what [Iraqi President] Saddam Hussein should be doing, and if he isn't doing it and ...
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I don't know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international comm...
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It's always sad when you see a fellow citizen who is alleged to have committed these crimes out in f...
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We have had a mixed relationship with Syria over the years,
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We also made it clear that if they begin reprocessing (nuclear material), it changes the entire poli...
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received reports that he may be in contact with various individuals.
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most candid and direct conversations about what we do that annoys the other.
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The trucks and train cars are easily moved and are designed to evade detection by inspectors, ... In...
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[Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday he had read a summary of the New Yorker article and str...
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We also had a good discussion on the role of the secretary-general and his representative in the pol...
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I made the case to Gen. Franks and Secretary Rumsfeld before the president that I was not sure we ha...
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How many other slips are there out there? It's not a slip, ... They knew they were there. Somebody k...
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Though I continued to say it was an urgent problem, I don't think it was ever treated that way,
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We will stand strong with our allies against those nations that pursue weapons of mass destruction,
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Germany is one of our closest friends. And differences and difficulties will arise in any relationsh...
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[The pictures] stunned every American, ... They showed acts that are despicable. The president has s...
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I don't think it's racism, I think it's economic. But poverty disproportionately affects African-Ame...
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I think we have do everything we can to show that we are functioning, that we can get through this p...
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It's a tragic situation, ... The president is committed to doing everything he can to see that we ca...
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In my conversations this afternoon with Arafat we discussed this in considerable detail, ... And he ...
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Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can ...
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The diplomatic track is alive and well, and I expect to see some developments along that track in th...
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They're sanctioned up to the eyeballs and they don't have that much aid now, ... But I think we have...
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Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach be...
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They will not succeed, for we stand united in the global war against terrorism -- war that compels t...
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Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see t...
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The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be en...
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Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it: Sp...
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Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like w...
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Have a vision. Be demanding.
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I don't know where it's going to lead, ... But I think a new element of fragility and vulnerability ...
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The suggestion he was kidnapped is wrong, and absurd,
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Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around cor...
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won't be standing by idly. We'll be watching, we'll be following it all, we'll be engaging... And we...
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But he did enter airspace without permission and landed without permission, and for that we are very...
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A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
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We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as rec...
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market dynamism has replaced dogmatism.
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A strategic partner China is not, ... But neither is China our inevitable and implacable foe.
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See, we answered your question here, but we're not answering all these other questions that, perhaps...
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's a...
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The Chinese have said they're (the crew) being protected, I don't know from what,
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President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ulti...
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I was taught to think about mission and people. Mission. What are you trying to accomplish? Don't do...
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because of the human dimensions of this catastrophe.
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We talked about sanctions, and we talked about how one gets through the process of eventually liftin...
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This is very regrettable
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It is a problem that must be dealt with,
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You made reference to the president ...
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has made repeated covert attempts to acquire high-specification aluminum tubes from 11 different cou...
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That's what happened, notwithstanding any cell phone reports to the contrary,
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We are still supporting access to WTO, but I can say that if we have to go for a vote on normal trad...
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If somebody tried to move the team in now, we would find ways to thwart that.
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a serious impediment to the conduct of America's foreign policy.
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One thing you should not be doing is passing any resolutions that could inflame the situation.
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[He said he had] extensive discussions ... strong views, and I have conveyed them to the North Korea...
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The United States presents a value system to the world that is based on democracy, based on economic...
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very sober, chilling message.
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We don't intend to attack North Korea, we don't have any hostile intent notwithstanding their claims...
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[While] we are all anxious to see restraint ... We understand it's important to get the terror down ...
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We have a humanitarian catastrophe and a security crisis, ... It was a moving experience.
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but the one thing I can assure you of is that it will be held in trust for the Iraqi people, to bene...
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We have a way out of this crisis. It's called the Mitchell plan,
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I will always treasure the four years that I have spent with President Bush and with the wonderful m...
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is very anxious to meet with me so we can talk about next steps, how we move forward from this curre...
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We don't want to see weapons in the Korean Peninsula.
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My folks have come up with models that span 80 years, ... We will explore ideas with our friends in ...
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But I think we have to be very careful in this instance because if in the exercise of that right of ...
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only a struggle to defend values ... which we share with the West and the vast majority of Arabs.
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Our commitment is firm, is unmistakable. We want to see a Palestinian state created, ... We've got t...
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The intent of the Iraqi regime to keep from turning over all of its weapons of mass destruction, see...
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(Bin Laden) speaks to the people of Iraq and talks about their struggle and how he is in partnership...
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to act fully as secretary of state until the day that I do leave. I expect that will be a number of ...
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is to comply...with the agreements that were made at the end of the Gulf War.
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If the international community does not take immediate action, countless deaths and terrible tragedy...
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With the assumption of that greater burden, the burden on our troops should go down, and we should s...
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We are in constant discussion with our German friends about these nations that are pursuing these ki...
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Command is lonely.
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This is the era in our hemisphere of democracy, not dictators. Constitutions, not coups.
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Iraq was a unique case,
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if your life is not better.
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We must keep moving forward.
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Every one of these bombings sets us back, ... terror cannot be allowed to prevail, to win.
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War is war and there will be casualties,
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(Hussein) means us no good. He means the region no good, ... We always consider him to be a potentia...
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There is a disenchantment with the institutions of elected government. In too many countries, people...
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there are no arms deal with Iran so far.
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Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
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The Kashmir issue is essential to the relationship and can be resolved if all parties engage with a ...
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The U.S. is taking action to meet environmental challenges, including global climate change, ... Sha...
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wonderful opportunities and daunting challenges.
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When we get reports back from Mr. Tenet and from Ambassador Burns and when we consult with a lot of ...
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Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
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No one has any evidence to the contrary, ... should not jump to such hasty conclusions.
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We knew there would be days when our anxieties would well up and we would be afraid to take the next...
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It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
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Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision
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First, we're going to cut it off, then we're going to kill it
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I try to be the same person I was yesterday.
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Think hard about it: I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villains. I'm down to Castro and ...
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All the options you can imagine are before us.
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No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
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You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
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If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool
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Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
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We have had serious disagreement in recent months, ... I am not going to paper over it and pretend i...
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Remain calm. Be kind.
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If he feels it is that important an assertion to make, he ought to list some names,
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I am pleased to hear that decrees have now been issued that should have been issued years and years ...
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Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they...
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The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve.
Any time you tolerate...
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The plan that is out there -- A, B and C -- is the Mitchell report, ... It calls for a cessation of ...
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You are going to be the proud owner of 25 million people. You will own all their hopes, aspirations ...
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We will be with you in this current crisis and in the future,
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We want that. But we can't do it in a hurried manner before the Iraqis are prepared to discharge tho...
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Now, if the sources fell apart, then we need to find out how we've gotten ourselves in that position...
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We know that there are occasions that arise when terrorists are coming in, and we know a bomb is hea...
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there was reason for guarded optimism. And let us be clear about what brought it all to a halt -- te...
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There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfe...
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I for one am not going to apologize that somehow we took Saddam Hussein out and we're putting in a d...
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It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my positi...
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seeing some convergence of views.
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Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
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The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in ...
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the level of a mammoth new campaign.
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We wanted it to be a special program of the State Department. Randy worked for me.
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Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earne...
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