Barton Gellman Quotes
Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.
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I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
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Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.
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I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
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How can we make sure that Confucianism is to be practiced? One must enforce it with power, and to have power, one must have a strong army.
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There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It's not a replacement.
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I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
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If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.
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Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
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Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.
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Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
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I think, if you create the right economic framework in terms of government policy, that Saskatchewan can continue to succeed and grow. Instead of having people migrate from Saskatchewan, they will be migrating to Saskatchewan.
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I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as they seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.
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If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should approach me. No problem.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that he himself called for the execution of peaceful activists in 1999, many people inside and outside Iran are optimistic that he might indeed favor greater respect for the rights of the Iranian people.
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Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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I shall find antiquity a rewarding study, if only because, while I am absorbed in it, I shall be able to turn my eyes from the troubles which for so long have tormented the modern world.
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I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.
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Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.
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Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.
