"The fact that other countries spy on their own people or spy on each other does not address the fact that the US is engaged in massive, bulk collection to the tune of 70.3 million telecommunicationsÂ a month in France of perfectly innocent people. That has nothing to do with protecting the United States, and has nothing to do with really gathering any kind of meaningful intelligenceÂ on France. It is an overreach ... and I think the other countries are justifiably outraged .... As one of our founders said: Those who choose between liberty and security deserve neither."

-- Jesselyn Radack

#Meaningful Quotes #Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“If I have to give up good fashion for a relationship, I don't want a relationship,”
“There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.”

Source : William Cartwright, “To Chloe,Who For His Sake Wished Herself Younger”
“We've got a lot of people that support, but The Runners are definitely one of my favorites.”

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“He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.”

Source : "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.
“Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.”

Source : Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Jon Stallworthy, Peter France (1983). “Selected poems”, Lane, Allen
“When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.”
“Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.”

Source : John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”
“Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.”

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