"The programs supported by the International Affairs Budget are as essential to our national security as defense programs. Development and diplomacy protect our nation by addressing the root causes of terrorism and conflict. But it's not just about security. By building new markets overseas for American products, the International Affairs Budget creates jobs and boosts the economy here at home."

-- Tom Ridge

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“Iâ€™ve lived the literal meaning of the â€˜land of the freeâ€™ and â€˜home of the brave.â€™ Itâ€™s not corny for me. I feel it in my heart. I feel it in my chest. Even at a ball game, when someone talks during the anthem or doesnâ€™t take off his hat, it pisses me off. Iâ€™m not one to be quiet about it, either.”
“Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more than one place than one particular time, which is very vexing.”
“I have very few hobbies. In fact, I have no hobbies.”
“All roads lead to my dogs, don't they?”
“Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.”
“People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.”

Source : John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”
“The snapshooterâ€™s pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection, which is exactly their appeal and their style. The picture isnâ€™t straight. It isnâ€™t done well. It isnâ€™t composed. It isnâ€™t thought out. And out of this imbalance, and out of this not knowing, and out of this real innocence toward the medium comes an enormous vitality and expression of life.”
“The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.”

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