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As we begin to leave Afghanistan, are we fooling ourselves about what we are leaving behind or what we have promised the people of Afghanistan? Especially the women and girls?


Greta Van Susteren


#afghanistan #begin #behind #especially #fooling

General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.


Jim Talent


#act #afghanistan #allies #circle #commander

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.


Eliot Spitzer


#any #apologize #better #family #first

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.


Sherrod Brown


#building #finance #iraqis #matter #mission

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.


Daniel Berrigan


#heal #insofar #interesting #like #plague

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.


Herbert Croly


#conception #consciously #democratic #economic #economic prosperity

I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.


Walter Winchell


#get #i #keep #people #promised

I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.


Gregory Harrison


#allowed #aspect #compromised #feel #fingerprints

People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.


Lauryn Hill


#arena #away #beginning #being #compromised

Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.


Lucille Roybal-Allard


#civil liberties #claim #compromised #even #fighting






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