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“As Americans, we have a long history with firearms. We also have a government built on compromise, so here is the compromise I propose: Ban assault rifles and handguns for everyone except police and military personnel. These weapons are made to kill humans and should be strictly limited. At the same time, allow responsible citizens to own rifles and shotguns. Rifles are for hunting big-game animals, shotguns are for hunting birds; non-automatic versions of these weapons should be available for those with an interest in hunting or target shooting.”

“In addition to declaring and destroying all of its weapons of mass destruction, Iraq must end its support for terrorism. It must cease the persecution of its civilian population. It must stop all illicit trade outside the oil-for-food program. And it must release or account for all Gulf War personnel, including an American pilot, whose fate is still unknown. By taking these steps, and only by taking these steps, the Iraqi regime has an opportunity to avoid conflict. These steps would also change the nature of the Iraqi regime itself. America hopes the regime will make that choice.”

“It’s clearly established in terms of training, provision of bomb-making experts, training of people with respect to chemical and biological warfare capabilities, that al-Qaeda sent personnel to Iraq for training and so forth.”

People Term Training Iraq Experts Bombs Als Chemicals Capability Warfare Provision Al Qaeda Personnel Biological Warfare

Author:Dick Cheney

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?”

Ifs Player Team Building Directors Baseball Team Building Accountants Personnel Baseball Team

Author:Jack Welch

“A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities and only law enforcement personnel have guns. And, believe it or not, such a liberal utopia does indeed exist. ... It’s called prison.”

“It is clear that a temporary increase in the cap is needed to ensure high-tech companies can hire the specialized personnel they need to continue to help fuel California's economic growth.”

Needs Helping Growth Company Technology Clear Economic Needed Increase California Fuel Temporary Economic Growth Caps Personnel

Author:Pete Wilson

“It appears that legal positions that you have supported have been used by the administration, the military, and the CIA to justify torture and Geneva Convention violations by military and civilian personnel.”

Has Beens Used Military Position Administration Torture Justify Conventions Civilians Violation Cia Personnel Geneva Geneva Convention

Author:Edward Kennedy

“I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency.”

States Today Faces Found United United States Special News Iraq Terrorist Operations Als Commanders Al Qaeda Personnel Insurgency Special Operations

Author:Mike Fitzpatrick

“I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.”

Thinking Needs Kind Long Use Problem Able School Answers Quality Technology Long Time Areas Educational Math Personnel Educational Technology

Author:Major Owens

“The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process.”

Important Law Process Responsibility Week Ten Aspect Accomplish Manage Transition Selection Transfers Personnel

Author:Richard V. Allen

“The eradication of anti-personnel mines around the world is one of the most important tasks facing the international community.”

World Important Community Mines Tasks International Around The World International Community Personnel Landmines

Author:Norman Jewison

“What I should have done, if I was going to be a GM, was gone on the road, gotten into the personnel a lot better. To do that job, you've gotta do it all year. I just did it at draft time.”

Ifs Should Years Done Jobs Gone Should Have Personnel

Author:Matt Millen

“It is utterly impossible to divorce the story of student awakenings from the course of missions in countries overseas. From the beginning, one of the most immediate and dramatic effects of college revivals has been the recruitment of personnel for the work of Christ abroad.”

Has Beens Country Stories Courses Christ Impossible Effects Students College Divorce Missions Awakening Dramatic Revival Personnel Recruitment

Author:J. Edwin Orr

“First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America's schools, period ... with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained se curity personnel.”

Firsts Believe Mean School America Law Periods Safe Gun Tolerance Exception Zero Officers Law Enforcement Enforcement Personnel Zero Tolerance Guns In America

Author:Wayne LaPierre

“We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.”

Feels America Spirit Sex Race Conditions Objects Higher Regard Institutions Accidents Pursuit Characteristics Creeds Personnel Higher Learning

Author:Abraham Flexner

“Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.”

Years Lasts Design Authority Bills Congress Defense Department Employee Last Year Civilians Aggravation Personnel

Author:Norm Dicks

“I will set a target for the reduction of (government) employees ... I will implement the reduction of the total personnel costs of the employees.”

Government Cost Employee Target Reduction Personnel Government Employees

Author:Junichiro Koizumi

“Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he has learned with his own experiences, finally molds something distinctly personnel.”

Artist Accepting Vision Influence Materials Great Art Mold Great Artist Integrating Personnel

Author:Romare Bearden

“If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad.”

Ifs Today Used Realizing Military Capitalist Elites Globalization Personnel Squad Goons Military Personnel

Author:Smedley Butler

“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.”

“I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft.”

Fighting Concern Wings Significant Teeth Fighter Capability Nails Reducing Aircraft Personnel

Author:Mark Pryor

“And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department's business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish.”

People World Needs Years May War Helping Policy Accomplish Fighter Department Adjustment Acquisition Personnel

Author:Stephen Cambone

“A fleet of the most powerful vessels would be of little use in war without a personnel at least as efficient as that of our possible enemies.”

Littles War Use Would Be Powerful Enemy Most Powerful Efficient Navy Vessel Personnel

Author:William Sims

“I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.”

Courses Given Special Theory Months Army University Wave Chicago Radiation Introduction Laboratory Personnel Mit Electromagnetic Waves

Author:Jack Steinberger

“There is a cottage industry of these Muslim bashers who are training law enforcement personnel, military personnel... and you are breeding a generation of leaders in our society who have this suspicion of Islam and hostility towards American Muslims and Muslims in general. The intention of these trainers is to demonise Islam and to marginalise American Muslims.”

“We held the team together for as long as possible and then sent all except the most critical personnel home.”

Long Home Together Team Critical Teamwork Personnel

Author:Bo Gritz

“We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.”

Ifs Needs Streets Safe Police Locals Secure Department Neighborhood Homeland Personnel Sheriffs

Author:Dick Durbin

“Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.”

Moving Cases Military Conviction Abortion Hospitals Nurse Physicians Personnel Military Personnel

Author:Rick Renzi

“In order to sustain the integrity of the organization, a business must dedicate time and resources to education, leadership development, and personnel development. Don't focus on the product. Focus on the team.”

Order Focus Team Products Development Integrity Resources Organization Leadership Development Personnel

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur.”

Three My Own Office Including Humanitarian Access Staff Adequate Personnel Darfur

Author:Jan Egeland

“Is there a medical rule that requires doctors-office personnel to treat you as though you have the IQ of a Cheeto?”

Office Doctors Treats Medicine Medical Personnel

Author:Dave Barry

“No travel ban or quarantine will seal a country completely. Even if travel could be reduced by eighty per cent-itself a feat-models predict that new transmissions would be delayed only a few weeks. Worse, it would only drive an increase in the number of cases at the source. Health-care workers who have fallen ill would not be able to get out for treatment, and the international health personnel needed to quell the outbreak would no longer be able to go in.”

“The murderers of the three Bytyqi brothers, New York residents who were executed by Serbian Ministry of Interior personnel in 1999, have never been prosecuted. The U.S. government cannot accept that the murderers of three of its citizens go unpunished.”

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Author:Michael Kirby

“I have written to Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, asking him to consider 'staggered office timings' for government offices, which will help in decongesting road traffic during peak hours.”

States Helping Government Hours Written Office Asking Ministers Timing Traffic Grievance Pension Personnel

Author:Veerappa Moily

“There is more to military units than hardware. There is the character of the unit's personnel: their strengths, experience, and knowledge, their ability to get along and work together amid the horrors of the battlefield. There is an almost undefinable quality. That quality is the Marine Corps' secret weapon. Their edge. That quality is their ethos.”

Character Together Ability Secret Quality Military Horror Weapons Edges Working Together Units Marine Battlefields Marine Corps Hardware Ethos Personnel

Book:Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit

Source: Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit

“Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.”

Jobs Keys Capacity Income Personnel

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.”

Moments Past Girl Next Speak Morning Minutes Missing Office Weapons Plant Eight East Sat Bombs Department Fifteen Desks Asia August Atomic Bomb Tin Clerks Personnel Hiroshima East Asia

Book:Hiroshima

Source: Hiroshima

“In order for us to use the very best judgment possible in spending the taxpayer's money intelligently, we just have to do a certain amount of this research and development work ourselves. We just have to keep our own hands dirty to command the professional respect of the contractor personnel engaged with actual design, shop and testing work.”

“If the security personnel do their job properly, they just might cause you to miss your plane, thereby possibly saving your life.”

Ifs Humor Might Funny Jobs Causes Security Missing Food Humorous Saving Planes Airline Personnel Air Travel Saving Your Life

Book:Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

“No one could have brought in more personnel than we have to build a football team.”

Team Football Nfl Football Team Personnel Raiders Oakland Raiders

Author:Al Davis

“The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.”

People Has Beens Important Choices Successful Plans Policy Standards Transition High Standards Personnel According To Plan Important Choices

Author:Richard V. Allen

“My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.”

Happens Jobs Support Player Picks Resources Trade Financial Things Happen Agency Coaching Department Staff Personnel Make Things Happen Free Agency Coaching Staff Financial Resources

Author:Arthur Blank

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