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If you get asked a really tough question and you give a really good answer, you come off looking really good.

Bob Schieffer

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

Daniel Ellsberg

The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more.

Brent Scowcroft

We leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace, and hope for all mankind.

Eugene Cernan

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe

After I left the Marines in '46, I wanted to stay in the Marines; I was very happy - I loved that life.

David Douglas Duncan

It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.

Al Franken

We want Israel as a democratic and Jewish state. So you have to maintain a Jewish majority, and you want to do that by legal means, by democratic means.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.

George Sutherland

We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.

Igor Ivanov

Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.

J. William Fulbright

While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.

Kit Bond

I am pleased to be part of Promontory's steady efforts to assist banks and other financial firms in meeting legal and regulatory obligations and challenges.

Laurence D. Fink

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.

Ron Wyden

We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.

Ted Cruz

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

F. Lee Bailey

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Charles de Gaulle

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

Charles de Gaulle

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.

Charles de Gaulle

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.

Charles de Gaulle

The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.

George P. Shultz