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Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.


Stockwell Day


#blair #during #face #faced #had

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.


Boris Yeltsin


#another #calls #defending #even #freedoms

The evidence does not support abstinence-only interventions as the best way to keep young people from unintended pregnancy.


Jonathan Klein


#best way #does #evidence #interventions #keep

The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians.


Godfried Danneels


#easy #far #freedom #going #how

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.


Slavoj Zizek


#been #bit #blessing #democratic #disguise

Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.


Jurgen Habermas


#among #began #discussions #europeans #found

I prepared my intervention the night before I spoke. As it happened, there were about 44 cardinals who wished to speak but could not because there was not enough time. I was one of the last to speak.


Godfried Danneels


#because #before #cardinals #could #enough

This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.


Bill Frist


#clean #clean water #confronts #cooperation #currency

Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'


Bill Maher


#big #bush #case #destroy #i

Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security, disaster relief, public works projects, for example.


Jon Meacham


#cynically #disaster #example #favor #for example






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