“It has been an honor to work in the Barack Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.” YearsHas BeensStillsTwoGovernmentPresidentWifeMiddleReturnHonorPeriodsPromiseMy WifeEastAdministrationTwo YearsMiddle EastI PromiseUnprecedented Author:Dennis A. Ross
“What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here illegally (e.g. plead guilty), provide all sorts of information as to where that person lives etc. to get a work permit only to be a target for deportation in two years?” YearsMindPersonsTwoGovernmentInformationGuiltyEtcTwo YearsTargetPermitDeportation Author:Greta Van Susteren
“A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.” PeopleYearsStillsTwoDoneEnoughFeelingsGovernmentRememberLyingLeftGivenFeltCitiesHavensWasteIgnorantDamageTwo YearsHurricanesDevastatedKatrinaAmerican CitiesHurricane Katrina Author:AnnaLynne McCord
“For two years now, my office has had the honour and the privilege of sponsoring seminars on the functioning of government in this country for Eastern Europeans. These seminars and exchanges have brought together representatives from such nations as Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republic, Roumania, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and the Ukraine, all of them anxious to learn what makes a society as diverse as Canada work and how our institutions make it governable.” YearsTwoCountryGovernmentTogetherNationsOfficeInstitutionsPrivilegeRussiaCanadaTwo YearsRepublicHonourAnxiousDiverseRepresentativesEasternUkrainePolandSeminarsHungaryCzechBulgariaEstoniaLithuaniaLatvia Author:John Allen Fraser
“The two Antonines (for it is of them that we are now speaking) governed the Roman world forty-two years, with the same invariable spirit of wisdom and virtue. ... Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.” PeopleWorldYearsTwoGovernmentSpiritUnitedHistoryVirtueObjectsPeriodsFortyTwo YearsSoleReignGreat PeopleRoman Empire Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition