Karen Hughes
Karen Hughes
Karen Parfitt Hughesis the global vice chair of the public relations firm Burson-Marsteller. She served as the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the U.S. Department of State and as a counsellor to United States President George W. Bush...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 December 1956
CountryUnited States of America
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The reason that I choose this meeting, as my first meeting on my first trip to the Middle East is to talk about the courage of this institution, ... I praised Sheik Tantawi for his courage, and he said it is not courage but I did the right thing to speak out against terrorism and extremism.
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We think the timing is wrong; it is simply not appropriate for this type of news to come out on Al Gore's big day. This election is not about President Clinton, it's about the future.
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We need to foster a sense of common interest and common values among Americans and people of different faiths and different cultures.
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The Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar Dr. Mohammad Sayed Tantawi Saturday condemned the violence and assassination operations carried out by Israeli occupation forces against defenseless Palestinians.
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We've worked at Indian River Inlet several times and once at Gordon's Pond in Rehoboth. The kids enjoy going back to the planting spot ... to see how their beach grass is doing.
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We don't want to give Democrats free rein in Los Angeles.
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The President is opposed to amnesty because he thinks it would encourage further illegal immigration and reward those who broke the law.
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Both President and Mrs. Bush feel strongly that out of the evil of Sept. 11 has come a great deal of good. As President Bush said, we're a nation awakened to terror but also a nation awakened to service, citizenship and compassion.
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The governor has said he would not increase the age to qualify for Medicare, and he has made that abundantly clear on a number of occasions. If the vice president says otherwise, then he's deliberately engaging in falsehoods.
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Neither he nor the United States government supports a coup -- the overthrow of a democratically elected government. What he was speaking to was what appears to be an encouraging prospect, that what has happened appears to have brought stability and resulted in an easing of tensions between Pakistan and India.
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It's not something that's affecting, I don't think, the daily business of the White House,
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It's offensive to me to suggest that somehow, as I've seen some headlines and some reports do, that people, that Americans weren't helped because they are poor or because of their race. That is anti-American. That is not what our country is about.
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That reserve is intended for strategic and national security purposes, not for election year political purposes.
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It's wonderful to see and to meet with the people and see hope in their eyes and to see them taking part in the process of rebuilding.