Quote by Barack Obama
Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have r

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military. – Barack Obama

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And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot.But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans. – Barack Obama

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positive
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But if you – if what – the reports are true, what theyre saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins thats going to increase our costs, we knew that. – Barack Obama

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Health
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We cant drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. Thats not leadership. Thats not going to happen. – Barack Obama

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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixons urgings for me to go there. – Sammy Davis, Jr.

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I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services. – John le Carre

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If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. – Pope John Paul II

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War is the statesmans game, the priests delight, the lawyers jest, the hired assassins trade. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights. – William Lloyd Garrison

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Because I know about the Holy Land, Ive taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you cant bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well. – Jimmy Carter

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The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence. – Rabindranath Tagore

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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. – T.S. Eliot

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