"I think it's part of Vladimir Putin's nature to define Russian success in foreign policy as thwarting the United States. That's in his nature. And that is very difficult to align with strategically."

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Ashton Carter

#Thinking Quotes #United States Quotes #Putin Quotes

“One thing is clear, the president of North Vietnam is not a fanatic. He is a very strong and determined man, but capable of listening, something that is very rare in a person of his position.”

Source : "Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984" by James Bentley, (p. 225), 1984.
“You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work.”
“I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.”
“Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.”
“The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose dawn we have given a warning is inspired by the ideals which Guru Gobind Singh and Shivaji, Kamal Pasha and Reza Khan, Washington and Garibaldi, Lafayette and Lenin preached.”
“A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth ...”

Source : Lady Dorothy Nevill (1912). “My own times”
“What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.”

Source : "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.
“There is nudity, of course striptease is an essential component of burlesque but it's much more complex and intelligent than a display of nudity for nudity itself. And its often laugh-out-loud funny.”

Source : Source: tech.blorge.com

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