Protection Quotes - Page 23

• What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

  Samantha Power

  Government, Want, Needed

  "Dying in Darfur" by Samantha Power, www.newyorker.com. August 30, 2004.

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• Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Country, Opening Up, Rights

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• The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.

  Lawrence Summers

  Country, War, Recovery

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• I was thinking as I bent over to receive my injection, next time I'm gonna use protection.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Sex, Thinking, Use

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• We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Ideas, Rights, Intellectual

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• If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.

  Manmohan Singh

  Cutting, Ideas, World

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• One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

  Nassau William Senior

  Errors, Government, Would Be

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• Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.

  Richard Trumka

  Jobs, Air, Should Have

  "Freedom Isn’t Free" by Richard Trumka, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2012.

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• Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.

  Fred Upton

  Country, Jobs, Environmental

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• While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.

  John Yoo

  War, Law, Uniforms

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• In addition, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act provides protection for those in the firearms industry from lawsuits arising out of the criminal or unlawful acts of people who misuse their products.

  Bob Ney

  People, Arms, Criminals

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• Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman.

  Nick Lampson

  Believe, Men, Support

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• If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.

  Anthony Mackie

  Essence, Community, Black

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Law, America, Long

  "Let’s Renew VAWA Today" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2013.

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• Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.

  Carolyn Maloney

  Men, Rights, Constitution

  "Women’s Equality Yet to Be Fully Realized" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.

  Hayley Mills

  Character, Safety, Typical

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• Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

  James McGreevey

  Unions, Sacred, Institutions

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• A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone.

  Emmanuel Jal

  Heart, Cold, Feels

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• It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.

  Robert Jordan

  Brave, Easier, Needed

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• What the members of the Church need, more than anything else, are strong testimonies of Jesus Christ and the gospel He restored. They need to know. And they need to know that they know. This is the best protection against the tsunami of temptations and the waves of immorality that crash against us. Perhaps this is just another reason why the first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ!

  John Bytheway

  Jesus, Strong, Temptation

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• Lincoln, answering friends who advised him to seek protection against assassination: "If they kill me the next man will be just as bad for them. In a country like this, where our habits are simple, and must be, assassination is always possible, and will come if they are determined upon it.

  William Herndon

  Country, Simple, Men

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• the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Summer, Gun, Black

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• There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism.

  John Stuart Mill

  Political, Independence, Limits

  John Stuart Mill (1864). “On Liberty”, p.14

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• So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master - so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil - so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beautiful, Heart, Law

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Nature, Mean, Land

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.32, Taylor Trade Publications

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