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We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency. Edward Snowden
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As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people. Jon Tester
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Decisions must be made that are very hard, Karen Hughes
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An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right. Elbert Hubbard
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The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.
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Now I have to take a decision and logically that decision is going to be to continue.
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Self decisions are the #1 key for success or failure.
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Running away from the president makes the situation worse.
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Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska. Ben Nelson
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events. Barbara Olson
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
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I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one. Dikembe Mutombo
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I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner. Amelie Nothomb
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I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both. Alice Roosevelt Longworth