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.
Benjamin Wittes
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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
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
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Carl Sandburg
I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
Rafael Nadal
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
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
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
Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
Lance Gross
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash
There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
Fiona Shaw
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
I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
Barbra Streisand
It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.
Jimmy Carter
I'm not a businesswoman, I'm not organized. I've never been commercial. I never looked after my negatives, and you need that to prove you took the photos. There have been 200 books on the Beatles...and almost all have used my photographs. It wasn't just with the Beatles. If other friends wanted, say a passport photo, I'd shoot one off and give it to them, often with the negative.
Astrid Kirchherr
All things except reason and order are possible with a mob.
George Eliot
I don't think jealousy has much of a connection with real, objective conditions. Like if you're fortunate you're not jealous, but if life hasn't blessed you, you are jealous. Jealousy doesn't work that way. It's more like a tumor secretly growing inside us that gets bigger and bigger, beyond all reason. Even if you find out it's there, there's nothing you can do to stop it.
Haruki Murakami
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
