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- If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the one hand, the presidents have…
- Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate precisely to prevent…
- I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.
- I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.
- All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
- Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we…
- All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to…
- Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
- War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,000 of them - now spreading across the…
- In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.
- As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.
- Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the…
- Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential…
- Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.
- All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle