Barack Obama Quotes
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.
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We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
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I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.
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I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.
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The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.
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From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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There is a clear interest within ISIS to drag Israel into a war with them. If they do so, they will be able to paint Israel as having an alliance with the states fighting against them.
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World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East.
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If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you.
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There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.
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Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
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Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
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I just really want to make albums - and however I can, I will.
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Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
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It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years.
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The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.
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In terms of the historical record, I should also point out that there is no account in any ancient source whatsoever about King Herod slaughtering children in or around Bethlehem, or anyplace else. No other author, biblical or otherwise, mentions this event. Is it, like John's account of Jesus' death, a detail made up by Matthew in order to make some kind of theological point?
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The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
