Karen Hughes
Karen Hughes
Karen Parfitt Hughesis the global vice chair of the public relations firm Burson-Marsteller. She served as the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the U.S. Department of State and as a counsellor to United States President George W. Bush...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 December 1956
CountryUnited States of America
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Both President and Mrs. Bush feel strongly that out of the evil of Sept. 11 has come a great deal of good. As President Bush said, we're a nation awakened to terror but also a nation awakened to service, citizenship and compassion.
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The governor has said he would not increase the age to qualify for Medicare, and he has made that abundantly clear on a number of occasions. If the vice president says otherwise, then he's deliberately engaging in falsehoods.
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The reason that I choose this meeting, as my first meeting on my first trip to the Middle East is to talk about the courage of this institution, ... I praised Sheik Tantawi for his courage, and he said it is not courage but I did the right thing to speak out against terrorism and extremism.
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Through this summit, secretary Rice and secretary Spellings and their respective departments want to reach out to college and university presidents to reinforce a common interest in attracting foreign students and scholars to US institutions. Of equal importance is seeking investment in educating globally competitive US students to work in fields of international interest.
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More than 170 flags will fly on the south lawn of the White House today as a way to visually and symbolically explain that the world is coming together to fight this threat to civilization and to freedom.
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Neither he nor the United States government supports a coup -- the overthrow of a democratically elected government. What he was speaking to was what appears to be an encouraging prospect, that what has happened appears to have brought stability and resulted in an easing of tensions between Pakistan and India.
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Some months your light bill is higher than other months and that is what happened with our Medicaid and prison expenses over the last two years, ... But as long as you have enough money to pay the bills, you still have a surplus. And that is the shape we are in.
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meant to be a whispered aside to his running mate. It was not intended to be a public comment.
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Many of the differences and many of the concerns are deep-seated, and I'm probably not going to change many minds, ... But if I make a connection with a person or two who I can keep following up with after I leave here on my trip, I would consider it a success.
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Senator Kerry had one bar to meet coming into this debate and that is he had to establish some type of credibility on the issue of Iraq. Not only did he fail to do that, but he further undermined his own credibility.
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obviously we have a public relations challenge here in Turkey as we do in different places throughout the world.
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The only people who would have had authorized access to that tape were the most senior members of our campaign, and so it appears that whoever sent that tape to the Gore campaign obtained it in some sort of unethical way.
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What I did is open a door for conversation. That's how conversation starts.
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The timing of an announcement like this, four or five days away from the election about an incident 24 years ago, which the governor's daughters don't even know about, is certainly questionable,