American - Politician | January 13, 1934 -
We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis.
Nick Clooney
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A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax.
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No matter how many troops we have in place or how long they stay, we cannot impose a parliamentary democracy there any more than the insurgents can impose a theocracy.
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America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.
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What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000.
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Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
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The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.
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Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.
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Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite enough ammunition to kill Americans for the next century, even if Guantanamo did not exist.
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We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.
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The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.
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The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.
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