"For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy."

-- George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

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“It's easy enough to make the truth look silly. A man never seems more foolish-like than he does when he's speaking his whole mind and heart.”
“Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.”

Source : "Arena Profile: Jim Nussle". Interview with Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com. April 15, 2010.
“It's nice, when the lights come up at the end of the movie, to not be like, "What did I just watch?"”
“Another important time when I feel most alive is when I hear a song that I love so much that all I can do is dance - I feel so free!”
“When he laughed in his throat, the butterfly laughed at me too. It's obscene fluttering corrupted me into darkness.”
“We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.”
“No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.”
“The danger of Iran is if you listen to what the Ayatollah is saying, to what the Mullahs are saying, rational self-preservation is not their objective. If Iran acquires a nuclear weapon the odds are unacceptably high that that weapon will not be simply stockpiled, but it will be detonated over Tel Aviv, or New York, or Los Angeles.”

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