Top 37 Peter Defazio Quotes
#1. It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.
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#2. Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.
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#3. After hanging up the phone Aoyama sank back back on the sofa feeling like a balloon in a warm blue sky.
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#4. Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.
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#5. The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.
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#6. The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.
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#7. Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their own country and their own government.
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#8. The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.
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#9. I don't think there is anything this Congress could do more definitively to put people back to work, to stimulate our economy to increase our efficiency, our competitiveness, both nationally and internationally
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#10. To the contrary, I believe the U.S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat from alleged weapons of mass destruction programs in Iraq has been neutralized.
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#11. There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.
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#12. Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq.
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#13. About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.
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#14. Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river.
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#15. First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.
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#16. Given the large size of the illegal harvest, ... I find it difficult to understand how this could have been a casual oversight.
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#17. The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.
Peter T. King
#18. In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representative from Oregon's fourth district, I have enjoyed seeing the diversity that craft brewery has fueled across the Nation.
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#19. If you won't improve yourself, who will?
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#20. Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.
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#21. Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
Dallas Willard
#22. Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal.
Thomas Sankara
#23. In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.
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#24. In addition to a timeline, I have proposed that U.S. troops be removed from front line combat positions in Iraqi cities and towns, turning over daily security patrols, interactions with citizens, and any offensive security actions to the Iraqis themselves.
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#25. When we choose to love, or to allow our minds to be one with God, then life is peaceful. When we turn away from love, the pain sets in. And whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.
Marianne Williamson
#26. I start sentences with ands and buts. I end sentences with prepositions.
Carol S. Dweck
#27. But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.
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#28. I promised no more poetry and I'd rather think of this as a confession: you are still the first person I want to share new things with.
Trista Mateer
#29. A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.
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#30. Have I humbled myself to serve others or instead have I been demanding of others? Do I
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#31. Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.
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#32. College is expensive; I always knew that, and I wanted to make money, partially to spend a little of it here and there, but primarily for a college savings fund.
Gillian Jacobs
#34. You don't own people; if they want to cheat, let them do that.
M.F. Moonzajer
#35. Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.
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#37. The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.
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