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some land swaps have clearly been in the public interest


Carl Pope

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CARL POPE I think clearly shows there is a lot of interest in Iraq and reflects the general interest of the pu...
JAMES LONGLEY A person who speaks honestly in the public interest has, most often, to pay unfortunately the heavie...
ANUJ SOMANY Clearly, there's a renewed interest in saving some money on fuel.
ANDY VOBORA In the interest of the credibility of the reform agenda, and in the interest of the general public, ...
CHARLES SOLUDO We have been reluctant to put too many Nabi dollars into it. We have been fortunate that there has b...
HENRIK RASMUSSEN What is in the public interest? It is in the public interest to eliminate a threat to public health ...
BILL NELSON We have a project, and we wish to develop the land from our club to the airport. We have interest in...
BARB FLAMMOND It's daunting what consumer and public interest groups face. The big bills that have passed have all...
FRANK CLEMENTE There were some real concerns for the donation of land for future public services.
GARY KUBIC The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shak...
WALTER GROPIUS The interest is in the water. The value is in the land.
BILL CAMPBELL The problem is, he may have been getting some therapeutic benefit, but clearly, you're getting enhan...
GARY WADLER The Society of Professional Journalists in their code of ethics says that journalists should avoid c...
AL TOMPKINS The interest is high. The cost of land is going through the roof.
EMORY MORSBERGER They're restricted on price because they have to supply their land-based stores. It's not in their b...
LISE BUYER Clearly, there have been changes in the climate.
KAREN HANDEL My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My fav...
LANGSTON HUGHES There have clearly been serious questions raised about some of the contracts that were awarded in th...
DAVID NUSSBAUM The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be ...
AL SPALDING We clearly have been fortunate in the BRACC process,
JAMES SAXTON Colored diamonds always have been treasured and valued because they're special. They're exclusive an...
SALLY MORRISON It allowed public-land managers to prohibit anything at all if it might harm some resource.
BRIAN HAWTHORNE She had been on the board in one capacity or another since 1992. She believed the public should have...
DONNA OBA Clearly the market is giving this a thumb's up. Steve Jobs would have a huge vested interest in maki...
DAVID KATZ The most important change in how one defines the public interest that I have witnessed . . . over th...
JAMES Q. WILSON Public interest is a very unruly horse.
KAPIL SIBAL The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.
STEVEN GROVER CLEVELAND Some 85 percent of jobs created in the past 25 years have been in the public sector -- in other word...
NICOLAS SARKOZY Beyond that, we have no interest in being a part of what are clearly courtroom antics aimed at disru...
BARRY JOHNSON The pope has a standing invitation and in no way has it been canceled.
SERGEI YASTRZHEMBSKY This is a big project. The commission has a lot of areas of interest. There's been some intelligent ...
DAVE POTTER They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public i...
JAMES L. BUCKLEY With lucrative industry employment ahead of them, FCC chairs — and most commissioners — have a bui...
JEFF CHESTER I have great respect for the Pope. I like the Pope. I actually like him.
DONALD TRUMP I am very pleased that common sense and the public interest have prevailed,
YOSSI SARID Since then the paper became aware of fresh allegations that suggest quite clearly these incidents we...
GREG BAXTER Humans don't have any type of interest... HAVING SO MUCH STUFF AROUND THEM AND SO LITTLE INTEREST IN...
DEYTH BANGER Land for such use has been grabbed while infrastructure in some holding grounds need rehabilitation.
ADAN DUALLE I have been a stranger in a strange land.
BIBLE In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.
JAMES Q. WILSON We will probably continue seeing land sell within this trading range. There is more interest now in ...
BRIAN THOMPSON If you're going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of deli...
PETER BRIMELOW Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private i...
FELIX ROHATYN Clearly there have been some very strong performances in the computer technology stocks. This is an ...
CLINTON MORRISON In our eyes, it clearly could have been a mistake.
JEFF WINTERS It is not in the best interest of Toledo Public Schools.
DAVID MCCLELLAN An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting...
FRIEDRICH LIST It's amazing to see how many thousands of people have gotten interested. It's really spurred the pub...
LOU MCFADIN I have been requesting the government because it is the government which has to allocate the land to...
JEEV MILKHA SINGH There should have been public consultation. It should have been debated in the House.
ALAN SILVERSTEIN Clearly the intention must have been to kill.
IAN BLAIR There have been some positive things that have happened for the tribes, but it's a constant, vig...
JOHN TRUDELL The public finances are in disarray. There have been some horrible misses on the deficit in recent y...
STEPHEN LEWIS The general public has been conditioned to think 'comics = superheroes' for as long as caped...
ANTONY JOHNSTON Carl has been a magnificent contributor to the game here and we wish him well,
RUSSELL GRAY Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
WALTER BENJAMIN We feel like it's in the best interest of the safety of the public.
LAUREN WAYNE What possible reason do we have as representatives of the people to not allow them to use a public r...
SEN. GENE THERRIAULT I've been on the fence for quite some time and now I need to take some action. I have a fiduciary re...
GREGORY HARDCASTLE Clearly, risks do exist and there is no doubt that some will get into trouble, especially if interes...
GLENN SILVERMAN The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning...
AYN RAND Whatever concerns health is of real public interest.
ELIE METCHNIKOFF It's not right to think that the public's interest in protecting species should be the sole burden o...
GREG WALDEN Some resorts have a 'develop at all costs' attitude regardless of environmental impacts or public op...
JEFF BERMAN I have been pleasantly surprised by the outpouring of interest in this flight,
JOHN GLENN There are excellent public interest grounds to have a search engine whose rankings are transparent.
MITCH KAPOR These are really kind of isolated pieces of forest. Most of our forests in East Texas are public lan...
ERNIE MURRAY The Pope?...how much divisions does he have?
JOSEPH STALIN I must thank you,' said Sherlock Holmes, 'for calling my attention to a case which certainly present...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life
SOPHOCLES You can't do that to Carl.
E. L. DOCTOROW Substantial interest already has been expressed, both from Petaluma firms and some outside the area.
DOUG GARRISON We are deeply disappointed by the verdict. Throughout this case we have seen no evidence that Mr. Po...
PJ CROWLEY I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pop...
MARTIN LUTHER Main Street investors, who cannot trade credit default swaps, should not be tempted to trade an inst...
DANIEL L. DOCTOROFF A few years ago, I was trying to buy a piece of land next to a house I had in Newfoundland. I discov...
MICHAEL WINTER Clearly, reports of the housing market's demise have been greatly exaggerated.
STEPHEN STANLEY The consequences of biomedical research are much more immediate for the general public. We need to e...
BOB WARD Given the anticipated public interest we know will accompany these applications, we have set other d...
MAYOR SCOTT SLIFKA (If Pope John scored the next goal) it would have been over. I think that swung the whole game back ...
MIKE REYNOLDS Industrial demand numbers are week. There clearly has been some more demand destruction on the indus...
BRUNO STANZIALE The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it
CATO THE CENSOR I've been hearing a little bit here and there that some students are showing more interest now than ...
CAMILLE LUCKENBAUGH The library regrets having to reduce its service to the public for any reasons, so obviously we regr...
EMILY KICKLIGHTER Students have been informed that if they're walking alone, they can call ... and have public safety ...
DEBRA MILLER We've been looking and looking at land. We have been very diligent.
JAN LANTZ I think that there clearly has been some impact. It's a little early to assess the full impact,
ANDREW ZIMBALIST The biggest mistake that you will make in life is believing that governments act in the public inter...
STEVEN MAGEE I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great ...
MARTIN LUTHER The world is looking for lower interest rates. Clearly, the psychology world-wide remains highly ner...
ALAN ACKERMAN All these issues have been covered in a lot of detail. We're just bringing them back to the public f...
JULIE REGAN I would have made a good Pope.
RICHARD M. NIXON The south Charlotte market has been an area of interest for us for quite some time,
LARRY GRIFFIN What we're trying to do is use some of the same legal tactics that have been so effective against th...
GEORGE WASHINGTON These are clearly terrorist attacks because the targets were random and public places,
SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.
ARLEN SPECTER With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the ...
ALEXIS TOCQUEVILLE With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the ...
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ALEXANDER POPE Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
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