James A. Leach Quotes
Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.
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I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm even more of a dissident than I was then.
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
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I do not favor the gag order.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.
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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'
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It's always been my dream to be among the big names of Colombia.
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Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
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When we had the infamous mealtime scenes, food fights would inevitably develop.
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I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.
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Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
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Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.
