I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us... they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force.
~By Frank Carlucci ~
In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.
~By Richard John Neuhaus ~
I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.
~By Talib Kweli ~
Getting to where Delaware State is today was a challenge my friends - a challenge proudly met by the people of this community and the Delaware State family.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
~By Walter Gilbert ~
Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.
~By Clayton Christensen ~
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
~By Ruth Benedict ~
I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.
~By David Selby ~
For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.
~By Nathan Deal ~
My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.
~By Andy Garcia ~
Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in.
~By Peter Fonda ~
A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.
~By John Thorn ~
The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.
~By Judith Light ~
It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.
~By William Thomas Stead ~
Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
~By Alan Bennett ~
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
~By Henrik Ibsen ~
In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.
~By Thomas Menino ~
As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan.
~By James Inhofe ~
Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.
~By Thomas Cochrane ~
Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.
~By Adam Rickitt ~
When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target.
~By Jerry Doyle ~
As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.
~By Ed Pastor ~
We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
~By Dorothy Day ~
But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community.
~By Emma Bonino ~
Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.
~By Alan Mollohan ~
I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.
~By Ted Stevens ~
I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'
~By Richard Dreyfuss ~
I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.
~By Sandra Bernhard ~
In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.
~By David Morse ~
Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.
~By Slobodan Milosevic ~
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.
~By Jan Schakowsky ~
The Round-Up is a wonderful community celebration, and I greatly enjoy the chance to visit with residents and see so many families enjoying the festivities offered throughout the week.
~By Greg Walden ~
The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.
~By Alija Izetbegovic ~
It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage,... It's a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin.
~By Ann Robinson ~
I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community.
~By Richard M. Daley ~
Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.
~By Martin Fleischmann ~
Memphis is a great town, man. There's a great musical community here. I'm trying to fit in.
~By Charles Moore ~
Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.
~By Pat Brown ~
There are plenty of opportunities for common grounds that we need to explore and strengthen. The Hispanic community has a strong affinity for our relationship with Israel.
~By Robert Menendez ~
Life is lived in common, but not in community.
~By Michael Harrington ~
No, I don't belong to a retirement community.
~By Sally Kellerman ~
There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
~By Jack Kemp ~
There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs.
~By John Warner ~
I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.
~By Mark Foley ~
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
Girls Incorporated of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey continues to advance their cause and to strengthen their community by aspiring to open a Girl's Center for Philadelphia.
~By Robert Brady ~
It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying.
~By Moshe Dayan ~
The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.
~By Mitchell Baker ~
Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
I believe Congress has a duty to do so as well; not simply as a body of legislators, but more importantly as a community of friends, neighbors, parents and Americans.
~By Jim Walsh ~
Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.
~By Dirk Kempthorne ~
It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
If we don't take Tullamore, no other community will.
~By Catherine McAuley ~
I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.
~By Lloyd Bentsen ~
We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports.
~By Bjorn Lomborg ~
Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past.
~By Ruth J. Simmons ~
Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.
~By Norman Lear ~
I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.
~By Tom Allen ~
Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.
~By Bo Jackson ~
The standards of the international community manifest firmness. Iran has no need for long-range missiles or to collaborate with terrorist organizations all over the world.
~By Moshe Katsav ~
It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.
~By Seymour Hersh ~
In this new century, our commitment to family and to faith, to community and opportunity, to freedom and to hope, will be the light that shines to lead us forward.
~By Bill Owens ~
I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.
~By Bob Schieffer ~
Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.
~By Paul Goodman ~
A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.
~By Lisa Bonet ~
There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
~By M. Scott Peck ~
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
~By Edward Sapir ~
We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide.
~By Jan Schakowsky ~
The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into the centers of population and those places.
~By Warren Rudman ~
Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.
~By Daw Aung San Suu Kyi ~
I love being in a show. I love the community aspect of it. I like the discipline of it, too.
~By Joel Grey ~
I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.
~By Richard Shelby ~
The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.
~By Mathieu Kerekou ~
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
~By H. G. Wells ~
A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
~By Saul Alinsky ~
The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.
~By Rita Dove ~
French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.
~By Stephen Gardiner ~
However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
~By Randy Neugebauer ~
Feeling a part of that community is my greatest reward.
~By Paul Parker ~
The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.
~By Bobby Seale ~
Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.
~By Tobias Wolff ~
As grateful as we are for all the work the community health centers do, it is also important that we recognize that they cannot solve the health care crisis facing our Nation by themselves.
~By Jan Schakowsky ~
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
~By Beth Henley ~
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