#council

We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#call #council #democracy #democratic #for the people

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

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It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

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Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#allows #any #arabia #china #council

Any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries that sponsor terrorism to remain as members, such as Cuba, is not real reform. And in the past, countries such as Libya, Iran and Syria have participated on this council. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#any #council #countries #cuba #human

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

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The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council. ↗

— David Petraeus

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American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#american #authorized #councils #hold #nature

In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#clubs #councils #passions #same #state

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. ↗

— Joseph Story

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