"Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the agreed-upon text. This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas-where we all understood he wanted authority to act-but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens. I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for additional authority. I refused."

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Source : "Bush's NSA Hubris" by Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. January 20, 2006.

Tom Daschle

#Exercise Quotes #President Quotes #United States Quotes

“You're looking at that chick like you want to roll her up in a taco and put your hot sauce all over her.”

Source : J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.2020, Penguin
“The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.”
“With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!”
“Only emotion objectified endures.”
“I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.”

Source : JOHN POWELL (1967). “WHY AM I AFRAID TO LOVE?”
“In my legal practice, I have seen certain Federal judges controlled or influenced by large corporations..., by large law firms...on more than one occasion(, and) ...by special interests...(some) ought to be thrown right off the bench because they are breaking every code of conduct...”
“I still regard myself as an amateur today and I hope that's what I'll stay until the end of my life. Because I'm forever a beginner who discovers the world again and again.”

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