Paul Bremer Quotes
I leave Iraq gladdened by what has been accomplished and confident your future is full of hope.
Quotes to Explore
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I usually have eight to 10 meetings a day and travel 150 days a year..._It sounds crazy, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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I'm not graceful.
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Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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Did I suffer from depression? Yes, a little, from time to time. Yes. … I'm not as depressed as I was. I get depressed now and then but not very much anymore. … At the height of it it was just God-awful. It was really bad.
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I love stories, and as I got older, I realized how important what happened yesterday is to how you try to make your present better.
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I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God.
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The future of any country which is dependent upon the will and wisdom of its citizens is damaged, and irreparably damaged, whenever any of its children is not educated to the full extent of his talent, from grade school through graduate school.
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[American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations
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I leave Iraq gladdened by what has been accomplished and confident your future is full of hope.
