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1 . Roosevelt, Theodore... [Document ID#: 58543 ] [Popularity Index: 104 ]
If I can be right 75 per cent of the time I shall come up to the fullest measure of my hopes.58542. 58541Two months ago we were facing serious problems. The country was dying by inches. It was dying because trade and commerce had declined to dangerously low levels; prices for basic commodities were such as to destroy the value of the assets of national institutions such as banks, savings banks, insurance companies, and others. These institutions, because of their great needs, were foreclosing mortgages, calling loans, refusing credit. Thus there was actually in process of destruction the property of millions of people.
2 . Obama, Barack... [Document ID#: 64878 ] [Popularity Index: 102 ]
There are no good options in Iraq. There are bad options and worse options.
3 . Harris, Fred R.... [Document ID#: 21345 ] [Popularity Index: 102 ]
... corporate power ... is not only economic-the ability to set prices without regard to market pressures or to manipulate consumer demand. It is also political-the ability to use the public government to obtain private economic goals. Corporate power means the ability of big corporations to have more than their fair share of influence over the decisions of government.
4 . Bolton, John... [Document ID#: 13276 ] [Popularity Index: 102 ]
American foreign policy decision makers should be responsible for and accountable to Americans, not to "world opinion," or "the international community" ...
5 . Clinton, Hillary Rodham... [Document ID#: 47417 ] [Popularity Index: 102 ]
As the minority] you vote for the legislation that's presented to you
6 . Weeks, Barstow... [Document ID#: 46868 ] [Popularity Index: 102 ]
You are not sitting here to determine any question of the rights of free speech.Quoted in Howe, The American Communist Party: A Critical History, 1957
7 . Jefferson, Thomas... [Document ID#: 44599 ] [Popularity Index: 102 ]
It appears to me one of those questions which present great inconveniences whichever way it is decided.
8 . Ervin, Samuel J. Jr.... [Document ID#: 18812 ] [Popularity Index: 102 ]
We are told here today, that what the King of England can't do, the President of the United States can.
9 . Lincoln, Abraham... [Document ID#: 25984 ] [Popularity Index: 102 ]
I ... think it is safer, when a practical question arises, to decide that question directly, and not indirectly, by deciding a general abstraction supposed to include it, and also including a great deal more.
10 . al-Munajjid, Salah al-Din... [Document ID#: 55141 ] [Popularity Index: 102 ]
These Jews have methodical minds which pass judgment with planning and schedules, and calculate numbers, time, and measure of everything; whereas we Arabs have confused minds which incline to improvisation, are subject to emotion, and are impelled to recklessness and extremism .... The Jews adhere to reality, study it in an objective scientific manner, and act to adapt to themselves to reality or adapt reality to themselves. But we cling to fantasy, delusions delight us, and we passionately love to talk: But soon, how painfully and bitterly reality hits us in the face!
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