Pacific Quote by Leon Panetta

“Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.”

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The one thing that I remember from all of my intelligence briefings and my dealings with the Russians is that when you deal with…

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The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.

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If you're a terrorist, you're a terrorist.

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As a result of the kind of partisan trench warfare that's going on in Washington, the special interests on both sides basically drive the…

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These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.

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The consequence could be that we would have an escalation that would take place that would not only involve many lives, but I think…

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Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the US military stands for.

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Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.

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People elected Donald Trump because he acts decisively. He fired James Comey. He didn't fire the entire FBI. If there's something there, the FBI…

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If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents.

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The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.

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The Pacific is the best toilet for satellites.

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How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation? The means of security can only be regulated by the means and the danger of attack. They will, in fact, be ever determined by these rules, and by no others . .…

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Maybe it is the last chance for Europe to influence standards for world trade. Next it will be between the US and the Asia-Pacific region.

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For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had…

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President Bush paid homage Wednesday to World War II veterans of Normandy at the D-Day Memorial. Later that night, his twin daughters paid a special tribute to World War II veterans of the Pacific. They each downed two kamikazes.

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There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though dismembered and alienated from each other… The genius of republics, say they, is pacific; the spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of men, and to extinguish those inflammable humours which have so…

Alexander Hamilton

If a person who lives in God becomes miserable, what is the use of living in God? What is the use of such a…

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You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic.…

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[John Musker] got me reading the mythology and we very early on we worked up a basic storyline centered around the character of Maui.…

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In some ways I consider myself more Chinese, because I live in San Francisco, which is becoming a predominantly Asian city. I avoid falling into the black-and-white dialectic in which most of America still seems trapped. I have always recognized that, as an American, I am in relationship with other parts of the world; that I have to measure myself…

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