"By the time President Obama took office, Guantanamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws and strayed from our values, undercutting the perceived legitimacy - and therefore the effectiveness - of our efforts."

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Source : "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.

John O. Brennan

#Effectiveness Quotes #Law Quotes #Office Quotes

“There's an entire universe in every single tweet, and it all really depends on the content as far as how it's going to spread.”
“Behind this judicial wall of separation there is a tyranny of lies that will fall... I say to you, my friends, let it fall!”
“As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy.”
“Nothing is impossible to the man who will”
“People should be suspicious if every decision was unanimous.”

Source : Source: www.cbc.ca
“Fill your heart with as much love as you can, and don't hold it in.”
“I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you meet cute, happily ever-after is a forgone conclusion.”

Source : Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.46, Penguin
“The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly insignificant . What art can do is make the extraordinary more ordinary and ordinary more extraordinary.”

Source : Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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