Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment… — Janis Karpinski Copy Share Image
“One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary.… — Don Hewitt Copy Share Image
Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln. — Fletcher Knebel Copy Share Image
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we should just scrap 'em. Cancel… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really think, if anything, there is more evidence to show that the violent games reduce aggression and violence. There have actually… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
I believe the United States of America must remain a standard bearer in the conduct of war. That is what makes us… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I've reported murders, scandals, marriages, premieres and national political conventions. I've been amused, intrigued, outraged, enthralled and exasperated by Chicago. And I've… — Irv Kupcinet Copy Share Image
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Britten's opera tends to see things in simpler terms. It portrays an Aschenbach who wants a richer form of sexual fulfillment, and… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Over time, I discovered that learning new things doesn't always liberate you. Instead it makes you wonder if your pants are on… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
The era of television in which I grew up was much simpler than now. Its conventions were quite transparent and fun to… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal… — Alice Duer Miller Copy Share Image
The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
I like to remember what Michelle Obama said in her amazing speech at our Democratic National Convention: When they go low, we… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Now, national conventions are largely an excuse for companies and party leaders to throw parties for delegates to attend, to network and… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
The time has now come to slow down, to sip Rooibos tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
All young people want to kick up their heels and defy convention; most of them would prefer to do it at a… — Elmer Davis Copy Share Image
A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The… — James Frey Copy Share Image
All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant,… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the… — Alcee Hastings Copy Share Image
Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
One of the conventions that I always liked was Doctor Zhivago, where everything that's written on the screen is in Russian but… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
The conventions of an almighty agency tapping you for greatness and signing you up and telling you this is going to be… — Jaleel White Copy Share Image
If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I went to one of these signing conventions. It was one of the most interesting experiences I've had. It was so strange… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
Some of the most amazing human beings on the face of the planet go to sci-fi conventions, although I'm sure a few… — Richard Hatch Copy Share Image
[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A rigged convention is one with the other man's delegates in control. An open convention is when your delegates are in control. — James Farley Copy Share Image
Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of… — Thomas Menino Copy Share Image
Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
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