#council

Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse. ↗

— Peter King

#america #controlled #council #department #even

Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation. ↗

— Dora Russell

#council #especially #great #innovation #measures

World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world. ↗

— George Schultz

#alive #councils #country #developments #engaged

The United States must also continue to push the United Nations Security Council for strong action to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. In the meantime, it is our job to take meaningful steps to eliminate the threats posed by Iran. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#also #continue #council #eliminate #iran

I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy. ↗

— William Scranton

#cause #chairman #conference #council #energy

I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#board #both #contribute #corporations #council

I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy. ↗

— Ed Asner

#democracy #does #i #immeasurably #iraq

When we talk to our fellow men and they tell us about their troubles, we will listen to them carefully if we have love for them. We will have compassion for their suffering and pain, for we are God's creatures; we are a manifestation of the love of God. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#compassion #council #eastern-orthodoxy #god-s-love #love

Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#budgets #council #currently #fiscal #fiscal year

Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results. ↗

— Laura Miller

#get #often #positive #positive results #quickly