Benjamin Wittes Quotes

The reason the FISA standard is constitutional is that the government is supposed to use FISA surveillance not for criminal investigations but for counterintelligence probes pursued under the president's authority to conduct foreign policy.

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• Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Photography
  • Competitive

• When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Family
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • Think
  • You
  • Confident

• Not only are Feiglin's people radicals and fascists but also the bearers of severe personal disturbances, which hide behind a layer of patriotic make-up under the camouflage of the Jewish faith.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • People
  • Up
  • Faith

• The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Responsibility
  • Fighting
  • Army

• No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Future

• I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • World
  • Power
  • Hope

• I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Light
  • Morning
  • Exercise

• Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'

  

  Jack Davenport
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Energy
  • Loss

• Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Age
  • You

• There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Great
  • Worst
  • Relief

• For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Sometimes
  • Forever
  • Service

• I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Like

• I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Words
  • Community
  • Marriage

• I was pampered by all my father's directors and producers during childhood. But at home, my father made sure I led a normal life.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Home
  • Father

• You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Support
  • Find

• It was so crazy, lucky, that 'Defiance' and 'Hemlock Grove' was shooting in Toronto at the same time. I got to be on both of them.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Same

• Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.

  

  Jon Kyl
  • Control
  • Immigration
  • Resources

• I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Remember
  • Comedy

• It was a terrifying feeling. And if it was love, he wanted none of it.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Feelings
  • Wanted

• I always enjoyed playing around Washington, because we always have a good crowd. I've never had a bad crowd in this vicinity from here Alexandria, up to Washington and on to right around Baltimore. They've been some good fans.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Fans
  • Enjoyed
  • Crowd

• The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win

  

  Miyamoto Musashi
  • Reason
  • Fighting
  • Winning

• The reason the FISA standard is constitutional is that the government is supposed to use FISA surveillance not for criminal investigations but for counterintelligence probes pursued under the president's authority to conduct foreign policy.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Government
  • Reason
  • Authority