"In full accordance with the law - and in order to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States and to save American lives - the United States government conducts targeted strikes against specific al-Qa'ida terrorists, sometimes using remotely piloted aircraft, often referred to publicly as drones."

-- John O. Brennan

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“It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.”
“But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.”
“I think I will be the most dressed [contestant and have] the most modest outfits for sure because thatâ€™s who I am,”

Source : "Bristol Palin Plans to Wear the 'Most Modest Outfits' on DWTS". people.com. August 31, 2010.
“You can't be a part-time man of principle.”
“In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.”

Source : John Lothrop Motley (1856). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: In three volumes”, p.25
“What I do respect is that Donald Trump knows that it is an emotional appeal and it might be emotional appeals that I don`t - can`t expect.But he knows that you have to appeal to the voter, and that`s why I may be wrong. I made a big deal about there`s no way he`s going to win.”
“Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese?”

Source : "Edith Sitwell, a Unicorn Among Lions". Book by Victoria Glendinning (p. 54), 1981; later quoted in "An Uncommon Scold" edited by Abby Adams (p. 74), November 1, 1989.
“I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still do not have a dime but I have a great vocabulary.”

Source : 1956 Cartoon caption.

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