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We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability, Ahmad Chalabi
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We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul. Laura Bush
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We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.
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Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good. Aaron Sorkin
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We have no illusions about what somebody like Sharon or any government professional can do without citizens deepening and expanding this public peace process of human relationships.
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We want respect. We don't feel equal citizens of the Czech Republic. We don't feel free. We fear for our children.
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We were trying so hard not to do something that would upset this man and get one of our citizens killed. ... Everything had to be read from a script. J. J. Johnson
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What we do know is that Taser technology saves lives every day and that medical experts studying Taser devices have concluded that they are a safer means to subdue violent individuals who could harm law enforcement officers, innocent citizens or themselves compared to other use of force options,
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The Supreme Court of Canada has given prisoners the "right" to vote. Is it not time that non-jailed citizens were given reciprocity with a "right" that prisoners have; namely the freedom to bypass the public system when it fails to provide reasonable access? Brian Day
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Denmark has long been regarded as one of the world's most attractive nations, for citizens and tourists alike. My own visits there, years ago as a student, were delightful. Elliott Abrams
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Some of the most interesting research that I did was about risk assessment and how ordinary citizens like me handle risk assessment and how irregular our risk assessments are. Eula Biss
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We have no benefits at all -- no sick leave. What most people have, we don't have it.
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Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own. Charlie Chaplin
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It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger. Charles Caleb Colton
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The process benefits enormously from the kind of candor that results when referees know that their identity is held in confidence. Donald Kennedy
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The reality is these are major companies we have dealt with for years .... We got tremendous security benefits by essentially embracing the private sector in what is the largest and most successful government-private sector partnership to form after 9-11.
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