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At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates…

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The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.
I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.
There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.
America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.
I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher,…
It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they…
Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for…
When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy…
It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that…
The Saudis and Emiratis blame all of this on Iran. I think they’d have to grant, that as has been said, that…
Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies…
In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as a kind…

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The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely… — Mark Twain
To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life — Diego Rivera
Leadership happens at every level of the organization and no one can shirk from this responsibility. — Unknown Author
No occupation in this world is more trying to soul and body than the care of young children. What patience and wisdom,… — Isabella Macdonald Alden
Know that the science of unveiling has no end to it, for it consists in the journey of the intellect in the… — Ibn Ata Allah
[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon… — Terry Eagleton
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every… — C.S. Lewis
I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people… — Walker Percy
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts. — Bertolt Brecht
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words… — George Orwell
I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk… — Nellie Bly
Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk — William Butler Yeats

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