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MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks,…
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A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and…
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Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless…
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I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the…
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Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.
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In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be…
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There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people,…
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I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just…
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Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people…
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United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
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The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.
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The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of…
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And what's interesting, and I don't think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created…
— George W. Bush
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So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly…
— Barack Obama
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Americans understand we fight not a religion; ours is not a campaign against the Muslim faith. Ours is a campaign against evil.
— George W. Bush
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And there is the matter of abortion. We must with calmness and resolve help the vast majority of our fellow Americans understand…
— Ronald Reagan
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We're not going to have a perfect batting average and it's important that Americans understand that.
— Unknown Author
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As I think all Americans understand on both sides of the aisle, the Social Security system as it is structured today is…
— John Shadegg
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We Americans understand freedom; we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and…
— Barry Goldwater
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We Americans only voted for George Bush to prove to the British that Americans understand irony. Unfortunately, it kinda backfired.
— Scott Capurro
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I think most Americans understand that radical Islam can't be compromised with or appeased. And the only way we can be safe…
— Lindsey Graham
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I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.
— Susan Rice
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I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws,…
— Gore Vidal
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Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates,…
— Robert Hormats
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