"Our country, the United States of America, may……" — John Spratt
"Our country, the United States of America, may be the worlds largest economy and the worlds only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden."
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18 Quotes by John Spratt
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This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our…
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Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this…
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We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence.
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We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of…
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing…
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Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a…
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As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have…
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Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon…
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I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact…
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Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy.
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With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a…
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Since the Pentagon underestimated the number of troops required after the end of hostilities, we were not prepared to prevent…
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Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed…
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The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating…
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We have no stronger ally anywhere in the world than Israel.
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When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts,…
— John O. Brennan
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Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks…
— Madeleine Albright
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You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
— William S. Burroughs
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We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.
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The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.
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What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and…
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is…
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