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“I can finally go home and tell the constituents, law enforcement, and leaders in Washington state that Congress is treating the meth problem with the same urgency and commitment that local communities have been treating it with for years.”

Years Has Beens I Can States Problem Home Law Community Leader Commitment Congress Locals Law Enforcement Enforcement Urgency Constituents Local Community Washington State

Author:Rick Larsen

“Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual continuation is not guaranteed.”

Has Beens Government President Generations Commitment Perpetual Patriot Continuation American President

Author:George Nethercutt

“At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure.”

Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“The gulf coast region has been hit hard by two major hurricanes and is going to need federal assistance at several levels, The best way to make sure that the resources are targeted properly is for us to see this area firsthand. I am pleased that members from both sides of the aisle share my commitment to making sure that the relief effort is targeted and managed as efficiently as possible.”

Way Needs Has Beens Two Hard Sides Levels Effort Share Members Majors Commitment Resources Areas Majority Best Way Relief Regions Coast Both Sides Assistance Hurricanes Aisle

Author:Bob Goodlatte

“Our commitment to this founding principle is especially relevant today. Americans are united as rarely before in compassion and generosity for our fellow citizens whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The powerful winds and floodwater of Katrina tore away the mask that has hidden from public view the many Americans who are left out and left behind.”

“America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.”

People Has Beens Self America Certain Freedom Moral Greatness Commitment Destructive Self Destructive

Author:John W. Gardner

“For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism. There are times when war is justified, and for many centuries the moral criteria for violence have been carefully delineated.”

Doe Has Beens War Moral Violence Century Commitment Blind Justified Diplomacy Criteria Pacifism

Book:The Jimmy Carter Library

Source: The Jimmy Carter Library

“For nearly three decades there has been, by and large, peace and tranquility on the India-China border. Not a single bullet has been fired for over a quarter-century. Both countries are showing great maturity and a commitment to economic cooperation.”

Has Beens Country Three Economic Century Commitment India China Decades Borders Maturity Cooperation Quarters Bullets Tranquility Peace And Tranquility Economic Cooperation

Author:Narendra Modi

“Besides my religious commitment, the greatest single factor that has enabled me to pursue my business and political objectives has been the security and freedom of my home.”

Has Beens Home Political Religious Security Commitment Objectives Pursue Factors Security And Freedom

Author:Preston Manning

“Where countries have been able to carry through on their reform commitments - as in Korea, Thailand and the Philippines - results are starting to come in the form of lower interest rates, new investment and increased growth.”

Has Beens Country Able Form Growth Interest Results Commitment Investment Rate Starting Reform Korea Philippines Interest Rate Thailand

Author:Lawrence Summers

“If loyalty is, and always has been, perceived as obsolete, why do we continue to praise it? Because loyalty is essential to the most basic things that make life livable. Without loyalty there can be no love. Without loyalty there can be no family. Without loyalty there can be no friendship. Without loyalty there can be no commitment to community or country. And without those things, there can be no society.”

Ifs Has Beens Country Community Essentials Commitment Praise Loyalty Obsolete No Love Basic Things No Commitment

Book:Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue

Source: Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue

“Christ has meant everything to our marriage. It was my commitment to Christ and the words from my grandmother that made me stick with Phil [Robertson] when there wasn't much to hold on to. How has Phil changed? Do you have a year to hear about it? His love for the outdoors, his pioneer spirit, and his quest for adventure has not changed. But his heart has been turned inside out. He's a new man in every way that involves relationships.”

Men Way Heart Has Beens Made Spirit Christ Changed Adventure Commitment Sticks Grandmother Quests My Grandmother Pioneers Pioneer Spirit

Author:Kay Robertson

“Our example - and commitment - to freedom has changed the world. But along with the genius of our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and our Bill of Rights, is the equal genius of our economic system. Our Founding Fathers endeavored to create a moral and just society like no other in history, and out of that grew a moral and just economic system the likes of which the world had never seen. Our freedom, what it means to be an American, has been defined and sustained by the liberating power of the free enterprise system.”

“As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.”

Has Beens America Force Nations Conscience Commitment Crucial Unifying

Author:Jon Meacham

“From the onset, I saw victims on both ends of the gun. I will mourn my son's death for the rest of my life. Now, however, my grief has been transformed into a powerful commitment to change. Change is urgently needed in a society where children kill children.”

Children Has Beens Ends Powerful Grief Saws Son Needed Gun Commitment Victim My Son Transformed Mourn

Author:Azim Khamisa

“Our future is only limited by our commitment to keep the momentum going. Now that television has been set free from all constraints - including time, place, and all previous definitions - what comes next?”

Has Beens Next Television Commitment Including Definitions Our Future Momentum Constraints

Author:Anne Sweeney

“The individual is denuded of everything but appetites, desires, and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is a process of mutilation; and once this has been achieved, we are offered the consolation of reconstituting the abbreviated humanity out of the things and the goods around us, and the fantasies and vapors which they emit.”

Humans Has Beens Desire Humanity Individual Process Fantasy Taste Commitment Obligation Goods Appetite Consumerism Consolation Overconsumption Vapor Mutilation

Author:Jeremy Seabrook

“I trust Cuba as a principled country. Cuba's strength is that it has been steadfast in its commitment to the principles of liberation, freedom, of resistance to the kind of institutionalized terrorism that the United States government does every day.”

Kind Doe Has Beens Country States Government United Principles United States Commitment Terrorism Resistance Liberation Cuba State Government Steadfast United States Government Principled

Author:Assata Shakur

“I'd worked on a series of Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul books called The Real Deal for HCI books, which featured essays and poems from teens.Finding the right authors for the series has been no easy feat, mostly because I'm looking for a perfect blend of a teen girl with an interesting story or hook, fantastic writing talent, and the confidence to commit to writing a 30,000+ word book in a matter of months. It's a huge commitment and I recognize that, so the fit has to be there from all these different angles.”

“From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From our devotion to a higher good comes our propensity to the foulest atrocities. From our commitment to ideals comes our excuse to hate. Since the beginning of history, we have been blinded by evil's ability to don a selfless disguise. We have failed to see that our finest qualities often lead us to the actions we most abhor, murder, torture, genocide and war.”

“I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit. It may be true, however, that my work has been so Christ-centred, I may have given the impression that the Holy Spirit is an afterthought.”

May Has Beens Spirit Given Christ Roles Clear Holy Evidence Commitment Impression Being True Sufficient Holy Spirit Ignored Orthodoxy Afterthought

Author:Stanley Hauerwas

“Marriage and parenting are the two strongest vows anyone will ever make. When you see these commitments being carelessly discarded, you can be certain that the ethics of that generation have been abandoned. ... What our society needs is a good dose of biblical ethic from God's people - the kind of ethic that requires us to keep our word no matter what the costs. Situational ethics have so shaped our society that even God's people have lost the concept of absolutes when it comes to keeping our word.”

People Needs Kind Has Beens Two Matter Certain Lost Generations Cost Ethics Concepts Commitment Absolutes No Matter What Our Society Strongest Abandoned Biblical Vow Dose Our Words Discarded

Author:Larry Burkett

“It's no surprise that at the same time that American universities have engaged in a serious commitment to diversity, they have been thought-prisons. We are not talking about diversity in any real way. We are talking about brown, black, white versions of the same political ideology.”

“I've always viewed the Paris Agreement as a starting point. If you look at all the commitments that have been made by all the countries, it's still not sufficient to deal with the very dangerous situation we face. What it has done is that it created an architecture whereby as technology improves, as we find new clean sources of energy, as we make our economies more efficient, then gradually we can turn up the dial and improve the outcomes of Paris.”

“It doesn't seem to be that huge a commitment that would create, you know, some kind of really powerful constituency. But the history has been for the United States and Russia especially that nuclear weapons have kind of become part of the identity of the countries.”

Knows Kind Has Beens Country States Seems United Powerful United States Identity Huge Weapons Commitment Nuclear Russia Nuclear Weapons Really Powerful

Author:John Burroughs

“The United States says "We're complying. We're following the disarmament obligation. Look at the quantitative reductions that are taking place." But, since '96, there really hasn't been progress on specific commitments that have been made. Perhaps most disturbing is this: that the United States and France in particular, since 1996, have expanded the range of circumstances under which they might use - they say they might use - nuclear weapons.”

“I will never compromise - I can now say with assurance at the age of 57 - with my libertarian and my revolutionary commitments; they'll have to kill me first. They can't buy me out. I'm just not interested in what they have to offer. I've managed to stick it out, and the thing that has been the most rescuing, the most redeeming, feature of my life that has kept me alive, that has kept me more or less single-minded about my commitment to libertarian ideals once I escaped the trap of Marxist-Leninism - a childhood trap, to be sure - has been consciousness.”

“I've developed my anarchism, my critique of Marxism, which has been the most advanced bourgeois ideology I know of, into a community of ideas and ultimately a common sense of responsibilities and commitments.”

Knows Has Beens Ideas Community Common Responsibility Commitment Common Sense Ideology Marxism Anarchism Critique Bourgeois Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Murray Bookchin

“We obviously have to honor the commitments that have been made to the people who are already retired or near the retirement age. But we need to tell the truth about the fact that when we set the retirement age at age 65 in America, life expectancy was only 62.”

People Needs Has Beens Made Facts Age America Honor Commitment Telling The Truth Retirement Retired Expectancy Life Expectancy Retirement Age

Author:Benjamin E. Sasse

“What has made America the wealthiest, most successful country on Earth historically has been our commitment to education.”

Has Beens Made Country Earth America Successful Commitment

Author:Barack Obama

“I think that the real tragedy of Greece - aside of the savagery of European bureaucracy, Brussels bureaucracy and northern banks, which was really savage - is that the Greek crisis didn't have to erupt. It could have been taken care of pretty easily at the very beginning. But it happened and Syriza came into office with a declared commitment to combat it, and in fact as I recall they actually called a referendum, which horrified Europe.”

Thinking Has Beens Real Facts Care Taken Happened Office Commitment Europe Tragedy Crisis Greek Combat Recalls Savages Bureaucracy Could Have Been Greece Savagery Referendums Brussels

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'”

Giving Has Beens Said Stories Opportunity Principles Commitment Perfection Constant Unions Slave Strive Preserves Honorable Founding Abraham Equality Of Opportunity

Author:Paul Ryan

“If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.”

Ifs Life Has Beens Two Today Week Commitment Dedication Two Weeks

Author:John Mayer

“Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they tend to focus primarily on cathartic individual psychological personal prejudice without stressing the need for corresponding change in political commitment and action. A woman who attends an unlearning racism workshop and learns to acknowledge that she is racist is no less a threat than one who does not. Acknowledgment of racism is significant when it leads to transformation.”

“Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.”

Persons Has Beens Said Views Commitment Love And Responsibility

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention? Unless she has been asked to marry him, why would a sensible woman promise any man her exclusive attention? If, when the time has come for a commitment, he is not man enough to ask her to marry him, she should give him no reason to presume that she belongs to him.”

Ifs Men Giving Should Has Beens Reason Enough Asks Attention Wife Promise Commitment Claims Prepared No Reason Sensible Exclusive Passion And Purity

Book:Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

“We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.”

Has Beens Struggle Strength Despair Draws Commitment Labor Endure Strength And Weakness Labor Union Economic Inequality Unionism

Book:The Words of César Chávez

Source: The Words of César Chávez

“Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.”

Has Beens Christianity Acceptance Conflict Commitment Lays Power Of God Groundwork

Author:Kenneth Lee Pike

“We have the ability to provide clean water for every man, woman and child on the Earth. What has been lacking is the collective will to accomplish this. What are we waiting for? This is the commitment we need to make to the world, now.”

Men World Needs Children Has Beens Earth Waiting Water Ability Commitment Clean Accomplish Every Man Collectives Lacking Men Women Clean Water

Author:Jean-Michel Cousteau

“We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century... During this period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries but necessities - not the salt in our bread but the bread itself.”

“I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.”

Years Looks Children Has Beens Made Two Country Projects Commitment Aids Checks My Children Adopted Hiv Malawi

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start.”

Has Beens Made Real Commitment Investing Profit Commodity Trading

Book:How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price

Source: How to Trade in Stocks: The Livermore Formula for Combining Time Element and Price

“Ever since I had my first child I have been passionate in my commitment to preserve our precious resources for my children and their children's children. This is the obligation of all of us visiting this planet for a limited time.”

Firsts Children Has Beens Planets Commitment Resources Passionate Obligation Preserves My Children Visiting Limited Time

Author:Kyra Sedgwick

“The lifestyle of many of our colleagues has been very pompous. They conduct weddings and birthdays in such an ostentatious manner that it pains me a lot. It appears that they are making fun of our commitment to the poor.”

Has Beens Pain Fun Poor Commitment Lifestyle Colleagues Pompous Ostentatious

Author:Sonia Gandhi

“A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense - it's important to keeping and growing jobs - and it's mainstream!”

Has Beens Said Important Jobs Values Deals Common Growing Taxes Commitment Raises Core Common Sense Mainstream Core Values

Author:Tim Pawlenty

“There is a general sense of guarded optimism. There have been too many false dawns over the last 60 years. There have been more tears than smiles, but I sense there is a commitment from Abbas and Sharon, a new determination to make a reality of the goal of two states living side by side.”

Years Has Beens Two States Reality Lasts Sides Goal Tears Commitment Determination Optimism Dawn Guarded Sharon Abba

Author:Jack Straw

“The fact is that we have been consistent in a predictable 60-year commitment to national security, while our friends and former enemies - by intent or default - have followed different paths since 1989. We stayed mostly the same as they became hypopowers that, to take a small example, would and could do nothing should a madman in Korea wish to kill millions.”

Should Years Has Beens Different Facts Wish Enemy Millions Path Security Example Commitment Former Consistent National Security Korea Predictable Madmen Default Different Paths

Author:Victor Davis Hanson

“I'm so honored to be on this recording with Ann & Nancy Wilson. They are iconic and I've truly been one of their biggest fans since I was a kid. And what a perfect song to sing with them, since I adore Vince Gill and have been very proud for his commitment to his own musical vision. When we were recording at Nancy's house, and even though I'm friends with those girls now, I had to keep 'pinching' myself and marvel at how blessed my life is! It was a very PROUD moment for me.”

Has Beens Moments Kids Life Is Song Girl House Perfect Vision Fans Proud Commitment Blessed Musical Adore Honored Iconic Wilson Nancy Biggest Fan Pinching Proud Moments

Author:Deana Carter

“For all the civilians saved thanks to the presence of peacekeepers, there have been those who were lost - the United Nations personnel who sacrificed their lives for a noble cause. Even as we mourn our fallen colleagues, we are all uplifted by their unflinching commitment and are inspired to strive even harder for the collective cause so eloquently envisaged in the United Nations Charter: a world free from the scourge of war.”

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