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Our focus (in Iraq) has been on national unity government formation.


Elizabeth Colton

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This decision, the formation of a government of national unity is extremely important. If they (Iraq...
ZALMAY KHALILZAD The national unity government will need to implement a program that brings all Iraqis together, buil...
ZALMAY KHALILZAD Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops...
JOHN BOEHNER We agreed on essential principles for exerting efforts to form a broad-based government, a strong na...
MAZOUD BARZANI We have agreed on a national unity government. The negotiations will continue in Baghdad among all t...
MASOUD BARZANI My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms.
NICOS ANASTASIADES We need to ignore some petty or nonessential or marginal issues in order to achieve national unity f...
JALAL TALABANI We hope that this will be a government based on national unity, formed without regard to sectarianis...
ZALMAY KHALILZAD Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never ...
JEAN CHAREST It is critical that the newly elected leaders of Iraq do their part by forming a government of natio...
ZALMAY KHALILZAD If this carries on, ... the momentum to create what's called a government of national unity will bec...
DAVID LANDAU Where is our National Guard when we need them? They’re over in Iraq, ... Why is our government con...
DIANE WATSON All obstacles to forming a national unity government soon will be resolved.
MOQTADA SADR We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,
AHMAD CHALABI The urgency to form a broad-based government or a government of national unity in view of these chal...
ASHRAF QAZI I believe that we will succeed in forming the national unity government the people are waiting for.
ADNAN PACHACHI The president underscored his support for Iraq's efforts to build a government of national unity.
FREDERICK JONES We need a broad government which will make decisions, but not a national unity government, because w...
REUVEN RIVLIN Our focus has been on winning the conference title.
BEN JACOBSON I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq.
SARAH PALIN I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government order...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government order...
MASARU EMOTO Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United...
MARK SHIELDS I think we've clearly been the catalyst that has sparked the national debate. That's been our goal, ...
CHRIS SIMCOX One of the main achievements for Iraqi national unity and for Iraqi women's rights is the family law...
HANAA EDWAR Let's just focus on unity and love.
PAM BONDI The multi-party agreement, known as the Global Political Agreement (GPA), created the Government of ...
ROY BENNETT We seek the right to play our part in advancing the cause of national defense and national unity. Bu...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH No one can undermine national unity.
IVICA DACIC This regime will never agree to form a government of national unity to govern a transition. All we c...
MAMADOU BA that direct national elections are the best way to establish a parliament and government in Iraq tha...
FRED ECKHARD Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the gr...
KIT BOND We respect their right to show unity, but our focus is on what's right for our Chicago employees and...
GREG SAUNDERS It is a crisis of lost churches, lost funds and lost unity brought on by the actions of our national...
BOB THOMPSON Our priority is the prosperity of Iraq and unity, without which there won't be security nor prosperi...
AYAD ALLAWI Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.
ROBERT MUGABE At this historic moment, the secretary-general calls on Iraq's political leaders to work with resolv...
STEPHANE DUJARRIC Our focus for these games has been to play four quarters of intense, Western defense. Our biggest th...
COURTNEY CLAPP The German government is continuing its efforts to clarify the fate of the German citizen who has be...
JENS PLOETNER Our strategy consistently has been to focus on profitable growth, not growth at any cost.
CHARLES LEE Has this abuse had an impact on our war in Iraq? Definitely.
CHRIS GRAVELINE In the United States, our focus has been mainly on numbers and how to put them in operations (additi...
CATHY FRENCH In case of the motherland's needs, our army would ... firmly defend and guard national security, uni...
GUO BOXIONG The first thing we are thinking of doing after forming a national unity government is to build stabi...
JALAL TALABANI In case of the motherland?s needs, our army would ... firmly defend and guard national security, uni...
GUO BOXIONG We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety o...
VITO FOSSELLA In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no yea...
JOHN SERGEANT WISE Our family is grateful that this killer has been caught, and now we can focus on remembering.
BETHANY PARKER The focus all week has been on improving our Nos. 4-7 spots and it paid off.
JAMIE MARTIN In our view, all communities of Iraq have won in these elections, all will have a strong voice in pa...
CRAIG JENNESS You are waiting on someone who isn't coming. Half the National Guard is in Iraq.
GENE TAYLOR Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.
AHMED CHALABI formation of a fully represented, broad-based government.
ABDULLAH ABDULLAH Poland wants the stabilization mission in Iraq to be a success... Our troops are in Iraq and they wi...
ALEKSANDER KWASNIEWSKI Our shift has mainly been to focus on eating more healthy and really thinking about the foods that h...
ALOHA KISHINAMI To succeed, we need focus, we need unity and a chance to make our case against him,
ANTHONY WEINER We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community r...
ABDULLAH AHMAD BADAWI The draft constitution has moved in the right direction and is moving toward becoming the national c...
ZALMAY KHALILZAD My focus has always been on connecting with consumers in a meaningful way.
KEITH BELLING Elizabeth is 6 and has been involved since before she was born. Her mother was a walker while she wa...
BARBARA ATCHISON This calls into question every time the government has relied on national security to impose secrecy...
ANN BEESON Our underlying business performance has been good, ... We have taken a number of steps to sharpen ou...
IAN RUSSELL The longer Iraq's leaders delay in forming a unity government, the greater the risk that the terrori...
GEORGE W. BUSH We all have to embrace in national unity ... avoid radicalism and learn politics.
XANANA GUSMAO Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our natio...
ADRIAN CRONAUER We've always been very close. But right now I feel there needs to be a change in the direction from ...
FRANCO HARRIS I will open an era of grand national unity.
PARK GEUN-HYE We want it back. Our goal has always been to recapture our national tournament crown.
TERESA LUNA I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.
ABDELAZIZ BOUTEFLIKA Lopez Obrador invokes the appeal of national unity, the revolution of 1910, and the progressive cons...
JEREMY CORBYN Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.
DANIEL BURRUS The Iraqis will choose who will be their next prime minister. The United States continues to urge th...
ELIZABETH COLTON The political parties are there to distract us from our systems of government; instead of focusing o...
HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN Our focus has been on having a hearing and putting the Senate in a position to move on the nominatio...
ANDREW GRAY Our focus has been on having a hearing and putting the Senate in a position to move on the nominatio...
ANDREW GRAY This is the first step to allow Iraq to have a unity government, but it's only a first step. The que...
ANTHONY CORDESMAN Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patrio...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR a phoenix. His faith in Iraq and in himself has been incredible.
FOUAD AJAMI Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles hav...
MARIA MONTESSORI For the last 14 months we have been pumping gas to the national grid but the government is not payin...
BRIAN ADOLPH Clearly this new Iraqi government must perform on behalf of the Iraqi people. But the new government...
JAMES WILKINSON Iraqi national unity and preserve its Arab and Islamic identity.
SAUD AL-FAISAL In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the fo...
CHRISTIAN LOUS LANGE The Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health has a national conference every other year. This...
MAYA ANGELOU It's important that the Iraqi leaders continue to move forward and form a unity government that is b...
SCOTT MCCLELLAN Next year, 2006, will focus very much on how Turkey can cooperate on Iraq, Iran and Syria.
ZEYNO BARAN He's a good boardman, an excellent one in fact. His focus has always been on children.
LAVERNE COOPER The situation has changed. We just want the government to take a decision in national interest.
PRAKASH KARAT In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has preva...
BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our ...
ADAM SCHIFF The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.
BILL DELAHUNT Ronald Reagan's vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a...
DAVID VITTER All such divisive policies are detrimental to national unity and integrity.
L.K. ADVANI It is your government which is seizing the people of Iraq and killing them. It is your government wh...
AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI No one wants to use 'national unity' anymore because it was used for years by the government to deny...
HOSSAM BAHGAT When my party won the elections convincingly on February 18th, 2008, we immediately reached out to o...
ASIF ALI ZARDARI That means political unity, which is absolutely essential to defeat the insurgency, does not exist i...
CARL LEVIN I was attracted by its national reputation and focus on health care.
ROBYN SHAPIRO We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put for...
DENNIS CARDOZA Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 year...
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CHARLES CALEB COLTON Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its maz...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."
True friendship is like sound health;...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men t...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON