"We shouldn't be lowering standards for NATO membership; we have to insist on democracy, reform, market economy, anti-corruption, reformed military, contributions to common security, interoperability - all the things that the Czechs had to do, the Poles had to do - they're still on the table. Which means that Ukraine is a long way away from getting to that point."

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Source : Source: www.politico.com

Kurt Volker

#Military Quotes #Mean Quotes #Long Quotes

“So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it, and the view from the top of Machu Picchu probably doesn't make up for the hassle of lost luggage. (More often than not, I need a holiday after my holiday.) We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.”

Source : "Why we travel" by Jonah Lehrer, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2010.
“Be a pro. â€¢ Act like a champion. â€¢ Respond to adversity; donâ€™t react. â€¢ Be on time. Being late means either itâ€™s not important to you or you canâ€™t be relied upon. â€¢ Execute. Do what youâ€™re supposed to do when youâ€™re supposed to do it. Not almost. All the way. Not most of the time. All of the time. â€¢ Take ownership. Whatever it takes. No excuses, no explanations.”
“I think the one worthy cause I can identify myself with is valuing education. Because I believe education is something that cannot be taken away from you. You can have money, you can have fame, but in the end, it can be taken from you. But education will always be there to help you.”

Source : FaceBook post by Shamcey Supsup from Apr 11, 2011
“After the game, I'm a completely different person. I drink some beers with friends and try to get my mind completely off football.”
“To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few paces it looked like Captain Hookâ€™s crewâ€“ambulance-chasing lawyers, rapacious public policy grants persons, civil rights gamesmen, ditzy-brained movie stars, fat-assed civil servant desk squatters, recovering alcoholics, recovering wife-beaters, recovering child-buggers, and so forth and so on, a grotesque line-up of ill-mannered self-pitying, caterwauling freeloaders banging their tin cups on the pavement demanding handouts.”
“The fact I want...no, I need for us to be exclusive until we part ways when we head off to college”
“No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.”

Source : "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.
“Twitter allowed me to talk about parenting in short snippets and find out what I really wanted to say about it, which is that I'm a dad who had no idea what he's doing.”

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