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Obama's drone program, in fact, amounts to the largest unmanned aerial offensive ever conducted ... MICHAEL HASTINGS Andrew Warren was a rarity in the CIA's Clandestine Service - African-American, fluent in Arabic... MICHAEL HASTINGS The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Co... MICHAEL HASTINGS The use of drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. On the battlefield, a squad leader c... MICHAEL HASTINGS My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq. MICHAEL HASTINGS As the CIA tried to find itself, the threat of international terrorism emanating from the Middle Eas... MICHAEL HASTINGS In late 2009, I returned to Baghdad after a lengthy absence. I was living alone, in the Hamra Hotel,... MICHAEL HASTINGS It's never a good thing to see a government agency talk in secret about the need to 'control... MICHAEL HASTINGS I thought Gen. McChrystal was unfireable, that his position was secure. MICHAEL HASTINGS In campaign reporting more than any other kind of press coverage, reporters aren't just covering... MICHAEL HASTINGS When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence. MICHAEL HASTINGS The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media. MICHAEL HASTINGS She has been Stalinized out of literary history on the theory that she messed up Eliot's life. MICHAEL HASTINGS Janet Malcolm had famously described journalism as the art of seduction and betrayal. Any reporter w... MICHAEL HASTINGS I have to admit that the empty prestige and the stupid glory - yes, the horrible rush, the deadly se... MICHAEL HASTINGS Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there ... MICHAEL HASTINGS There is not much of a bureaucratic leap, if history is any guide, between a seemingly benign call f... MICHAEL HASTINGS The night before I began my career as a presidential campaign reporter, in September 2007, I finishe... MICHAEL HASTINGS If feels good to live after death. It feels good to not be dead. It feels so good to find myself ali... MICHAEL HASTINGS He's been wanting to do this forever, ... Mike began writing in sixth grade. MICHAEL HASTINGS Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to... REED HASTINGS Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other re... ALCEE HASTINGS Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use. REED HASTINGS Think of Internet on the TV like the Web browser. The amount of time you spend on the PC in the brow... REED HASTINGS I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television. REED HASTINGS Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago. REED HASTINGS My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic... REED HASTINGS I founded Netflix. I've built it steadily over 12 years now, first with DVD becoming profitable ... REED HASTINGS Most companies that are great at something - like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores - do not become g... REED HASTINGS MAX HASTINGS I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpr... ALCEE HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS In 20 years from now we will all be able to click and watch TV. REED HASTINGS About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools... REED HASTINGS Al Gore needs to understand that what happened in Florida is not necessarily about him, ... suffered... ALCEE HASTINGS because of the overwhelming evidence of official misconduct, deliberate fraud, and an attempt to sup... ALCEE HASTINGS [Rep. Alcee Hastings, a Democrat from Florida who was elected to Congress after being impeached as a... ALCEE HASTINGS Nothing in our intelligence suggests that Iraq is ready to attack Washington or Fort Lauderdale, ALCEE HASTINGS [Rep. Alcee Hastings ( news , bio , voting record ), a Democrat from Florida who was elected to Cong... ALCEE HASTINGS Congress should not be in the business of supporting state-sponsored discrimination. ALCEE HASTINGS FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, ... Natural di... ALCEE HASTINGS But if the last five years have taught us anything, it's that this Congress is unwilling to police i... ALCEE HASTINGS Whether we should have been in Iraq or not, we must do everything we can to make sure we do not send... ALCEE HASTINGS I will not be satisfied until all veterans in Palm Beach County and the surrounding area get the car... ALCEE HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so ma... REED HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in I... ALCEE HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS So much of the downstream revenue is linked to that initial excitement, to how much revenue is produ... REED HASTINGS MAX HASTINGS But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're con... REED HASTINGS At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterpr... REED HASTINGS The idea is to image the internal anatomies of the entire range of fishes. Capturing the variation a... PHILIP HASTINGS It turns out that all Netflix streaming peak on Saturday night can fit inside a single fiber optic, ... REED HASTINGS I continue to believe that the effects of higher gas prices on the consumer are overestimated. Most ... RICHARD HASTINGS When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smar... REED HASTINGS In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years ... REED HASTINGS Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term. REED HASTINGS This is our revenge tour '06. Heritage is our biggest rival, and we're psyched for it. ALLIE HASTINGS That's what we do. We've shot an incredible amount of threes during the season. When we know we need... ALLIE HASTINGS We knew a team like that would come back on you. You have to put them away and not just go on cruise... ALLIE HASTINGS If something doesn't happen and you just stop (trying), it won't ever happen. But if you continue to... ADAM HASTINGS For Coach Patterson to call me back to play professional football, over all the people he's coached,... ADAM HASTINGS Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this countr... ALCEE HASTINGS The town of Biloxi is certainly deserving of a Reading Garden and some help. And we're glad we could... BARBARA HASTINGS There are 11 criteria for lupus that show you have inflammation in three or more body systems. An an... BARBARA HASTINGS We have a beautiful town green now where we can once again gather and share. It's a feeling of peace... BARBARA HASTINGS I thought it was a pie. But it's a beautiful structure. BARBARA HASTINGS That's really exciting for our team. To finish third here and fourth in cross-country, that shows we... AMY HASTINGS Coming in, I didn't realize it, but I wasn't supposed to be as fast as I was. I was supposed to be a... AMY HASTINGS Generally, until this recent spat, we've had collegiality. Now we're like everyone else. It's a poli... ALCEE HASTINGS Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and ... ALCEE HASTINGS The capital markets are so liquid, despite some of the increase in borrowing costs, that they create... RICHARD HASTINGS Waterloo has had our number. We needed to make a stop and we did. MIKE HASTINGS She actually had about a 50-meter lead early, so I was getting a little bit nervous. But I had a fee... AMY HASTINGS The absence of clear and consistent regulations... will undoubtedly lead to further confusion and un... ALCEE HASTINGS I'm not any kind of kingmaker or any kind of political machine, ... But I do have allies and I do ha... ALCEE HASTINGS It was real cold out there. But it didn't seem to bother those guys at all. They just crushed the ba... ROB HASTINGS The writers of the Indian philosophies will survive, when the British dominion in India shall long h... WARREN HASTINGS Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows. REED HASTINGS Well, we're about 24 million subscribers today, and that's up from about 15 million a year a... REED HASTINGS There is a revolution happening, and within two years I think that Wi-Fi and Netflix will be built i... REED HASTINGS I don't think that we could be any more forceful in asserting that the election did not meet interna... ALCEE HASTINGS They get stronger with each match. They are only ninth and 10th grade. It will be exciting to watch ... WENDY HASTINGS They can't be an island. By being part of the community, you help yourself as an institution. Others... BOB HASTINGS Prices are much firmer in the high-end product arena than in the moderate price discount arena. RICHARD HASTINGS It's been everything from a dairy to a poultry farm to a vegetable operation. I'm running it as a na... ROB HASTINGS It's the air. The water. The pollen. ROB HASTINGS They got some hits right down the line that kept some of those innings going. We could have gotten o... ROB HASTINGS (Douglas) hit the ball well against a pretty good pitcher. (Cutler) threw the ball well. He struck o... ROB HASTINGS It's kind of narrowed the gap between what he can do and what his siblings and peers can do. LINDA HASTINGS It pains me to note that there were a number of significant deficiencies in the vote count by the au... ALCEE HASTINGS MAX HASTINGS We don't bring anything that puzzles anybody. I don't think you can look over a six-game stretch and... MIKE HASTINGS I love you. I always will.. I'll always return to you to claim you as mine.. I will work for you, to... BENJAMIN HASTINGS Our goal all along was to get at least one win from Reno, Carson and Douglas. Those are the three te... ROB HASTINGS It was surprisingly negative, well below the low end of the most pessimistic analysts, which is no s... PETE HASTINGS America was the land of liberty--and liberty had come to mean the right to disregard the rights of o... MILO HASTINGS I try to pick shows that are a contrast for the season. This was just something different. DAVID HASTINGS GMAC bondholders would be delighted to see a transaction of some sort take place and ecstatic if it ... PETE HASTINGS GMAC bondholders would be delighted to see a transaction of some sort take place. PETE HASTINGS Most of their operating profit comes from the U.S.. Everyone's been hurt by rising oil and gas, espe... PETE HASTINGS What it means for the bid, in order for GM to accomplish its goals, is that KKR needs to find anothe... PETE HASTINGS Better to have York as an informed insider helping with the turnaround effort than to have him press... PETE HASTINGS GM's numbers are surprisingly bad. PETE HASTINGS If you take out the fleet aberration, the sales were closer to what everyone expected. PETE HASTINGS I'd like to see guidance on 2006 that ties all this together. I'm still somewhat skeptical of the de... PETE HASTINGS If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to th... REED HASTINGS Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me... ALCEE HASTINGS Given the fact that most religions share basic values, it is most unfortunate that religious people ... ALCEE HASTINGS Moreover, I want us to urge political and religious leaders, and all peoples of the world, to move f... ALCEE HASTINGS All that a week ago was neatly put out there. Today Mother Nature took all of it. RICHARD HASTINGS The assortments weren't there when cold weather snapped back, and shoppers were curious about someth... RICHARD HASTINGS This is about putting your career on the line. They need to go in there and do something really dram... RICHARD HASTINGS Management is concerned about return on invested capital and return on shareholder equity and that's... RICHARD HASTINGS Being a public company ain't fun. Retailers are fleeing for the private universe, because they speak... RICHARD HASTINGS This remains one of the most interesting major retailing case studies in the past 20 years. RICHARD HASTINGS Management has been defending the brand. If we look at the last six years, it's become clear that th... RICHARD HASTINGS They're paying attention to their problems. They are aware that when it comes to store-level executi... RICHARD HASTINGS What's holding up the consumer is habit. Until things change in a very material manner, American con... RICHARD HASTINGS But higher costs were enough to hit operating income in the quarter, which grew only 7 percent, comp... RICHARD HASTINGS We don't want to quote numbers yet, but we will be bigger. BRIAN HASTINGS I tell you, there was an audible groan all around the room when he was out. BRIAN HASTINGS What they're doing is presenting real-life situations they've come across in their professions. They... BRIAN HASTINGS I hate the photo shoots. REED HASTINGS I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff. REED HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS The first guy we faced was slow, and we knocked him out in the first inning because he couldn't thro... DONNIE HASTINGS Cody pitched a good game today. We gave up some runs, but he was in control from the first inning th... DONNIE HASTINGS We have a very wide range of content, but the brand-newest movies, what's happening with those i... REED HASTINGS Mass merchandising and discount retailing is moving in a big way toward private labels and exclusive... RICHARD HASTINGS DOC HASTINGS I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO. REED HASTINGS This is one of the most talented senior classes that I've had. DAVID HASTINGS I have had several say, 'I don't want to go,' and I said, 'I'm sorry, you're going.' DAVID HASTINGS They either go with a family member or they go with us, but this building is not safe sitting on the... DAVID HASTINGS On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better. REED HASTINGS There's a finite market for DVD-by-mail, and the growth over the next 10 years will be in stream... REED HASTINGS It is clear that the incumbent president allowed the state authorities to be used in a manner which ... ALCEE HASTINGS If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of s... ALCEE HASTINGS School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly. REED HASTINGS Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of gen... ALCEE HASTINGS The world is better because of Coretta Scott King. She affected countless lives and her voice will b... ALCEE HASTINGS Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanne... ALCEE HASTINGS The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven&... ALCEE HASTINGS The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israe... ALCEE HASTINGS While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various ... ALCEE HASTINGS Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of... ALCEE HASTINGS Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person... ALCEE HASTINGS To this day, I don't know who called - I think it was an ex-girlfriend. JAMES HASTINGS We?re in a good region with a lot of vitality and small business growth. JAMES HASTINGS No. But I can give you a nice special on 47. JAMES HASTINGS Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven. JAMES HASTINGS Virtually every support-paying person, unless he or she doesn't see the children at all, would be in... HONEY HASTINGS There was a time when 'till death' wasn't a long commitment. There also was a time when it didn't ma... HONEY HASTINGS People don't seem to change in tandem, so keeping a marriage together over time can be a challenge. HONEY HASTINGS We are really in a race against the clock. He is doing really well right now, but we know that the m... LINDA HASTINGS War needs to be waged on this disease. Twenty years ago if a child was diagnosed with cancer it was ... LINDA HASTINGS Of course it was absolutely, positively the most shocking thing in the entire world, because he had ... LINDA HASTINGS A paradigm shift is taking place in Europe and Asia Pacific, with consumers increasingly using their... JEFF HASTINGS MAX HASTINGS I think the stock will trade down significantly because of lower profits for the next year, but the ... REED HASTINGS While voting was generally calm, the election day process deteriorated progressively during the coun... ALCEE HASTINGS There must be other races out there, watching our tiny yellow sun glimmering in their unknown field ... ALICE HASTINGS BRADLEY Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170 Belief in God through Christ is th... JAMES HASTINGS RASHDALL It does not make a very great difference what side of Christ's work attracts us and appeals to us mo... JAMES HASTINGS RASHDALL The great question for us now is, Do we believe in that love of God which Christ taught by His words... JAMES HASTINGS RASHDALL Although prayer has been defined as communion with God, aspiration after the highest things, Stopfor... HORACE L. HASTINGS It pains me to report that progress noted in the pre-election period was undermined by significant d... ALCEE L. HASTINGS Sometimes you have to find the strength to forgive someone every time you think of them. It might ge... NICOLE SHURRI HASTINGS Love is an action, not an explaination. NICOLE SHURRI HASTINGS Love is the hardest thing to describe, easiest thing felt, most wanted, fragile, life-changing pheno... NICOLE SHURRI HASTINGS The greatest honor is your children looking up to you one day with respect, where you inspire them t... NICOLE SHURRI HASTINGS If only love could cure illness, heartache, poverty, or loss. Or, if everyone actually cared, took t... NICOLE SHURRI HASTINGS
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