Around The World Quotes - Page 33

• There is enormous continuity beneath the day-to-day news that makes America that indispensable nation when it comes to maintaining order and promoting prosperity around the world.

  Barack Obama

  Order, America, News

  Source: time.com

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• When you're a candidate and you say something that is inaccurate or controversial, it has less impact than it does when you're president of the United States. Everybody around the world's paying attention. Markets move. National security issues require a level of precision in order to make sure that you don't make mistakes.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Moving, Order

  "President Barack Obama Holds Press Conference", pl.usembassy.gov. November 15, 2016.

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• East India Company were a huge multinational that had the added impetus that they felt they were spreading Christian civilization around the world - so they were pretty free to do anything they wanted.

  Steven Knight

  Christian, Civilization, India

  Source: deadline.com

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• Since 9/11 we've been engaged in wars around the world, and General [James] Mattis has been a leading battlefield commander in many of those theaters, including in the April 2004 siege of Fallujah, where the US Marines killed so many people that the municipal soccer stadium in the city had to be turned into a graveyard for the dead.

  James Mattis

  Soccer, War, Marine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I found Donald Trump to be very attuned to what was going on around the world.

  Michael T. Flynn

  World, Trump, Found

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.

  Tom Peters

  Cities, Age, Digital

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• Many flagship state universities have wonderful digital libraries that are accessed by people around the world. In future, if not current, budget crises, trustees, board members, and administrators may wonder why these state institutions - with an articulated primary clientele of students, faculty, and staff members and a secondary clientele of all citizens of the state - should be spending resources on a digital library that is used by many people beyond the primary and secondary service populations.

  Tom Peters

  People, Library, World

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• It's important to understand that the president [Donald Trump] is now entering a world of public service. He's going to be asking his own appointees to make sacrifices. He's going to be asking our men and women in uniform to risk their lives in conflicts around the world.

  Reince Priebus

  Sacrifice, Men, Risk

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to people who are in crisis.

  Anna Quindlen

  Running, School, People

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• I don't regret the fervor, because I do believe, in the African American community but also for other communities, and I know from talking to people, for communities around the world, the election of an African American to the most powerful office on Earth meant things had changed, and not just in superficial ways. That in some irreversible way the world was different.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Regret, Believe

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• There is a fair amount of competition, obviously, with ISIL and the terrorist networks around the world, China also posing a different kind of threat to the rules-based order.

  Samantha Power

  Order, Competition, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We've already seen, in practically every country around the world where these issues have been covered, that the general public has recoiled at the ideology behind these programs.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Issues, World

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• By leaning on companies, by leaning on infrastructure providers, by leaning on researchers, graduate students, post-docs, even undergrads, to look at the challenges having an untrusted internet, where we have to put our communications on wires that are owned by a phone company that we can't trust, that's working in collaboration with a government that we can't trust, in areas around the world, we can restructure that communications fabric in a way that it's encrypted.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Phones, Government

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• By creating a self-policing, self-reporting, sort of self-monitoring culture through law, through statute, and imposing that on the academic world, I think not only are we losing a significant measure of freedom in academic traditions and in our civil society, but we're actually making ourselves less competitive with every other country around the world that does not do that. Because that's where researchers are going to go and that's where academics are going to go. And ultimately, that's where breakthroughs are going to occur.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• We have to call mass surveillance mass surveillance. We can't let governments around the world redefine, and sort of weasel their way out of it by saying this is bulk collection.

  Edward Snowden

  Letting Go, Government, World

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to understanding that the war on drugs has resulted only in the empowerment of vast criminal enterprises and the destruction of democracies around the world. And all that is coming to a miserable, horrific halt.

  Ayelet Waldman

  War, Thinking, Drug Use

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• There are now more than 4,000 places in the sea around the world that have some kind of protection. The bad news: You have to look hard to find them. What you find instead is destructive fishing, mining, gas and oil exploration.

  Sylvia Earle

  Sea, Fishing, Oil

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• While being tossed around the world from place to place as a teenager, I wasn't really tethered to any place or anyone.

  Chelsea Manning

  Teenager, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've talked to a lot of pretty good lawyers around the world. I'm non-extraditable. That's the real reason the US government was pissed off, even when I was initially in Hong Kong.

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Government, Hong Kong

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• We not only brought peace to many countries and people around the world, but we never dropped a bomb, we never launched a missile, and we never fired a bullet while I was in office. Yet we protected the interests of the American people in a peaceful, but strong way.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Strong, Office

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• As far as being in dangerous situations around the world is concerned, I always have a Secret Service detail with me as one of the privileges of a former President.

  Jimmy Carter

  Dangerous Situations, Secret, President

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Climate change is real, it is caused by human activity, and it is already causing devastating problems in America and around the world.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, America, Climate

  "Trump orders revival of Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines" by David Smith, Ashifa Kassam, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2017.

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• Then by the springtime, you'll see us moving an effort to cut taxes for working families, small businesses and family farms to reform our business taxes in this country so that American businesses can compete more effectively with businesses around the world.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Moving, Cutting

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• The point we are making is that the general global messages have been communicated, about the politics of South Africa, about the economy in general, all of these general questions. The rest of the world understands these things and are saying, let's now come to the specific things so that even we, as big corporate chiefs from around the world, can assist in these areas, which you have decided are your priority areas.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Priorities, Messages, World

  Source: www.gov.za

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• I have a lot of faith in justice systems around the world even though there were cases in the past where that faith wasn't justified in some countries.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Country, Past, Justice

  Source: autoweek.com

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