Agreement Quotes - Page 4

• The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.

  Michael Pollan

  Party, Two, Black

  "Michael Pollan on Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.tomdispatch.com.

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• At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.

  Vicente Fox

  Immigration, Ends, Stage

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• The Republican movement have not behaved properly over the years. They have not themselves implemented the Agreement. If they had implemented the Agreement then they would have disarmed completely in May 2000, that is what they undertook to do, that is what they failed to do.

  David Trimble

  Years, Movement, May

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• In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.

  Fredric Jameson

  Country, War, Resistance

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.

  John L. Lewis

  Organization, Steel, Corporations

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• What usually comes first is the contract.

  Ira Gershwin

  Firsts, Contracts

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• Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government.

  Stafford Cripps

  Government, Effort, Chinese

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• We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.

  Rafik Hariri

  Israel, Lebanon, Want

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• Too much agreement kills the chat.

  John Jay Chapman

  Too Much

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• Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.

  Thom Mayne

  Numbers, People, Projects

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• Money is not real.
  It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.

  John Ralston Saul

  Real, Conscious, Measuring

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Despite whatever agreement there may be between some of us, let us never forget that we are all working whole-heartedly and humbly for the same goal-a country of peace, abundance and prosperity-for all of our people of all races, of all groups-whoever they may be, wherever they may live.

  Chester Bowles

  Country, Race, America

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• There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

  Sitting Bull

  Home, Trying, Sound

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• By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade.

  Shigeru Yoshida

  Development, World, Machinery

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• In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

  Vernor Vinge

  Mind, Algorithms, Facts

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• As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement.

  Alija Izetbegovic

  Bosnia, Limited Time, Sovereignty

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• I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it.

  Clare Short

  Break Up, Mean, Law

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• If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

  Jacques Delors

  Government, Unions, Employers

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• In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Thinking, Years, Arms

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• We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Country, Years, Needs

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• Unfair trade agreements, passed by both Republicans and Democrats, have sent millions of jobs to other countries. We need to stop this hemorrhaging and find ways for American workers to compete in the new market.

  Russ Feingold

  Country, Jobs, Needs

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• I'm very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family's long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Winning, Player

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• We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements.

  Anna Lindh

  Iraq, Community, Together

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• This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  War, Conventions, Geneva

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• Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.

  Lech Walesa

  Courage, Lying, Responsibility

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