James R. Clapper Quotes
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.
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Power is a big thing in baseball. It can't be cheapened. That is, a fellow has it or hasn't. It isn't a fluke or great accomplishment, like a perfect game. When Mantle connects, it's a tape-measure job. Nobody who ever lived has more power than Mantle.
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I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.
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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
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In this job, I've found the less I talk, the better.
