“The only way that American troops could have stayed in Iraq is to get an agreement from the then-Iraqi government that would have protected our troops, and the Iraqi government would not give that.” WayGivingGovernmentIraqAgreementProtectedTroopsOur TroopsAmerican Troops Author:Hillary Clinton
“The first time I ran for office in 2002, running for governor in Massachusetts against Mitt Romney, we actually worked with a Democratic legislator to file that bill, so that there would be no risk of splitting the vote. The Democrats had about 85% of the Legislature at that time. They could have easily protected their access to the governorship. But they refused to do so. They wouldn't let the bill out of committee.” FirstsWould BeRunningRiskOfficeFirst TimeVoteBillsDemocraticDemocratAccessRanProtectedGovernorsCommitteesFilesRomneyLegislatureLegislatorsMassachusettsSplitting Author:Jill Stein
“The fact that this highly classified information of very, very important people in many cases was so poorly protected demonstrates that cyber security is just one more area where the Obama administration has failed.” PeopleImportantFactsCasesInformationAreasAdministrationBarackJust OneProtectedCybersecurityClassified Information Author:Donald Trump
“Right now, when you go and hit the light switch in your house, you're participating in a state-protected monopoly. You're being forced to accept dirty power from a single producer.” StatesLightHouseAcceptingRight NowProducersDirtyProtectedMonopolyParticipating Author:Van Jones
“I really believe that professional wrestlers are not protected. I think everybody gets a big kick out of watching them and whether the wrestling is real or not, people love watching it.” PeopleThinkingBelieveRealBigsKicksWrestlingProtectedWrestler Author:Nancy Grace
“I think that those wrestlers, those women and men that go in the ring are not protected. I don't think anybody is ever looking out for them and I think that they are used badly.” ThinkingMenUsedMen And WomenRingsProtectedWrestler Author:Nancy Grace
“[If you could have 10 minutes in a room with Barry Bonds] ... I'd ask him for another half hour. And then I'd probably start with the obvious and see how honest he would get. I just think those guys are so protected, that you're not going to get much out of them.” IfsThinkingGuyAsksHoursRoomsHalfMinutesHonestObviousProtectedHalf Hours Author:Joe Buck
“People expect those in authority to take on big problems and to solve them. We had an opportunity to reform Social Security in a way that would have protected people's benefits and created a solvent system. Younger workers would be confident that the money they were putting into the system would be available to them when they retired. It was a missed opportunity. I regret that.” PeopleWayProblemBigsWould BeOpportunitySocialSecurityRegretAuthorityBenefitsWorkersAvailableSolveReformProtectedSocial SecurityRetiredI RegretBig ProblemsBe ConfidentMissed Opportunity Author:George W. Bush
“In the US the problem has been, for instance, that Nazis have rights of free expression, right? But other kinds of racist speech is not protected. And you have to link the speech to conduct or to a certain kind of threat against minority population. I know that in Europe, this kind of framework doesn't exist in the same way so it's very difficult to make the analogy.” KnowsWayKindHas BeensProblemCertainDifficultRightsExpressionSpeechEuropeThreatPopulationInstanceMinoritiesRacistLinksProtectedNaziFrameworkAnalogiesFree Expression Author:Judith Butler
“It isn't that black people are protected in America by the left; it's that black liberals are protected just as female liberals are protected, not conservatives.” PeopleAmericaLeftBlackFemaleBlack PeopleProtected Author:Andrew Breitbart
“This oppressor/oppressed cultural Marxist thing is you're an authentic woman and an authentic black even only if you support liberal causes. If you are a woman, if you are a Hispanic, if you are black, and you abide by a value system that believes in limited government and constitutional principles, you are an apostate to the utopian ideals of the left, and you are not protected, and you are pilloried, and that is why I became a conservative because I thought it was fundamentally unfair, fundamentally un-American.” IfsBelieveGovernmentValuesLeftCausesBlackPrinciplesSupportIdealsConservativeProtectedUnfairOppressedOppressorsLimited GovernmentUtopianMarxistHispanicValue Systems Author:Andrew Breitbart
“I'm irreverent, I'm not politically correct, and I feel that I'm protected in my private life because I live a very public private life.” FeelsProtectedPrivate LifePolitically CorrectIrreverent Author:Andrew Breitbart
“People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected.” PeopleHumansWealthRightsGainsHuman RightsLabourProtected Author:Noam Chomsky
“[Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are hid-den in the dream. Instead, for me the dream is a mixture of thoughts and sensations that man has when he is asleep, a mental state relatively protected from the constant noise that society makes.” MenStatesDreamDesireSimpleDealsConstantNoiseSubstanceUnconsciousInterpretationSensationsDiscoveringProtectedMixturesDensInterpretation Of Dreams Author:Erich Fromm
“Protected by a no-fly zone, surrounded by protesters, Trump Tower is buzzing with intensity. The president-elect's family, loyalist advisers and wannabes all jockeying for position.” PresidentPositionTrumpZoneIntensityProtectedTowersAdviserWannabesLoyalists Author:George Stephanopoulos
“Every [Alaskan] has witnessed climate change over the past fifty years. Our winters are warmer, our summers are longer, and our Arctic Village shores, once protected by sea ice are eroding.” YearsPastSeaSummerClimateWinterClimate ChangeIceFiftyVillageShoreProtectedOver The PastArcticAlaskans Author:Ray Metcalfe
“Senator majority leader, Mitch McConnell, slammed [Donald] Trump`s comments about burning the American flag which is protected under the first amendment should lead to jail time.” ShouldFirstsLeaderTrumpMajorityBurningJailCommentFlagsAmendmentsProtectedSenatorsFirst AmendmentAmerican FlagMajority LeaderJail Time Author:Chuck Todd
“When I was a child, I had a quiet, protected childhood.” ChildrenChildhoodQuietProtected Author:Lucile Hadzihalilovic
“I had good parents. Nothing terrible happened. But I had the feeling that they kind of protected me from reality somehow.” KindFeelingsRealityParentHappenedTerribleProtectedGood Parent Author:Lucile Hadzihalilovic
“The MMI brothers, who provided security for Malcolm X had been trained by Malcolm himself that inside of the Nation of Islam, whenever there is a diversion, you protect the principal. The principal, in this case Malcolm, clearly was not protected on February 21st [1965].” NationsCasesSecurityBrotherProtectIslamProtectedPrincipalFebruaryDiversionNation Of Islam Author:Manning Marable
“Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.” LibertyDemocracyRightsCitizensEqualProtectedBasic Rights Book:Collected Papers Source: Collected Papers
“E.U. need to be nurtured and cultivated and protected and fought for because the achievements that we've seen on this continent, in contrast to a divided Europe of the previous century, are ones that remind us of how important it is that we work together.” NeedsImportantTogetherCenturyAchievementEuropeWorking TogetherDividedContrastProtectedContinents Author:Barack Obama
“There are places in America that have not just protected middle-class neighborhoods but reduced homelessness. Even places like Houston have been able to reduce homelessness among veterans. It's a pretty shameful situation.” Has BeensAbleAmericaSituationClassMiddleMiddle ClassNeighborhoodProtectedVeteranHomelessnessShamefulHouston Author:Cleve Jones
“I saw certain things that I think maybe other kids are protected from. Like, I saw my parents struggling. I knew that we were cutting out coupons and buying dented cans because they were cheaper. And all our furniture was from the garbage. It was just - and to me because I was a kid, all that stuff was really exciting.” ThinkingKidsCertainStuffParentStruggleSawsCuttingExcitingBuyingProtectedFurnitureGarbageCheaper Author:Regina Spektor
“America is the one that leads the effort to make sure the freedom of navigation in the South China Sea is protected.” AmericaEffortSeaSouthChinaProtectedNavigation Author:John F. Kerry
“What we're really debating is not security versus liberty, it's security versus surveillance. When we talk about electronic interception, the way that surveillance works is it preys on the weakness of protections that are being applied to all of our communications. The manner in which they're protected.” WayLibertySecurityCommunicationWeaknessProtectionProtectedVersusPreySurveillanceInterceptions Author:Edward Snowden
“Only two percent of the ocean is fully protected right now.” TwoRight NowOceanPercentProtected Author:Sylvia Earle
“There were no whistleblower protections that would've protected me - and that's known to everybody in the intelligence community. There are no proper channels for making this information available when the system fails comprehensively.” CommunityKnownFailingInformationAvailableProtectionProtectedIntelligence CommunityWhistleblowers Author:Edward Snowden
“We not only brought peace to many countries and people around the world, but we never dropped a bomb, we never launched a missile, and we never fired a bullet while I was in office. Yet we protected the interests of the American people in a peaceful, but strong way.” PeopleWorldWayCountryStrongInterestOfficePeacefulAround The WorldBombsProtectedBulletsMissiles Author:Jimmy Carter
“Not everyone agrees the bears should be protected. Hunters, oil interests, even the state of Alaska has questions about the effects protection would have on oil and gas exploration and commercial shipping. But for many others, the bears are a symbol of a bigger crisis threatening the planet.” ShouldStatesInterestEffectsPlanetsBearsBiggerCrisisAgreeProtectionOilSymbolsGasExplorationProtectedThreateningHuntersAlaskaShippingOil And Gas Author:Sam Champion
“I don't know why you should isolate women in this regard. If you have a traditional leader who says 'I am the sole exclusive ruler, I am the autocrat', it will affect everybody in the area, whether they are men or women. The challenge that South Africa faces, and it is not a new challenge, a whole range of African countries have faced this challenge, is that where you have institutional traditional leadership, which in our country is protected by the Constitution, how does that institution function side by side with a democratic system?” IfsKnowsMenShouldDoeCountryWholeFacesSidesChallengesLeaderAreasFunctionConstitutionRegardInstitutionsDemocraticSouthTraditionalOur CountryRangeSoleProtectedRulersSouth AfricaExclusiveNew Challenges Author:Thabo Mbeki
“We need find the space to build more affordable homes in the city. That involves a number of different policy responses. For example, I've spoken about the need to rethink the greenbelt - the protected land around the edge of London that was originally intended to be protected and retained as an area of natural beauty but in many cases is neither natural nor beautiful.” NeedsDifferentHomeBeautifulNaturalSpaceNumbersCitiesCasesLandPolicyExampleAreasResponseEdgesLondonProtectedAffordable Author:David Lammy
“We need to revisit that planning decision because in many cases across our capital [London], greenbelt land doesn't deserve the name. Car parks, quarries and wastelands are being protected and we are saying there isn't enough land to build the houses we need.” NeedsEnoughHouseNamesDecisionCasesLandCarDeserveLondonPlanningParksProtectedWastelandQuarryCar Parks Author:David Lammy
“What I'm doing here is pointing out an irony: Here you have an institution that has systematically protected pedophile priests and then you have an innocent Michael Jackson, who California spent millions of dollars trying to prosecute and could not do it because it was complete bulls - t.” TryingMillionsInstitutionsDollarsInnocentIronyCaliforniaPriestsProtectedPointingBulls Author:David LaChapelle
“What I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease, protected by my neurosis which, through writing, gave me happiness.” WritingHeroDiseaseProtectedNeurosisMy Hero Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“The copies of The Catcher In The Rye or To Kill A Mockingbird that I own look like they were printed yesterday, and there's not a nick, not a blur, there's not any fading on the jacket at all, because they were taken and protected. A limited edition, by nature, is limited, and also probably more protected because of that. I'd rather have a first trade edition than a special one of 25 that was made years later, even if it's signed by the author. The trade edition is the Holy Grail.” IfsYearsFirstsLooksMadeTakenSpecialHolyTradeYesterdayCopiesProtectedJacketsPrintedFadingBlurCatchersHoly GrailMockingbirdKill A MockingbirdSpecial OneLimited Edition Author:John Larroquette
“What I believe is that the United States is going to be playing on a level playing field in dealing with Israel and the Palestinian people. I am 100 percent pro Israel in the sense of Israel's right to exist, I lived in Israel, I have family in Israel, Israel has the right to live not only in peace and security, but to know that their very existence will be protected by the United States government.” PeopleKnowsBelieveStatesGovernmentI BelieveLevelsUnitedExistenceUnited StatesSecurityFieldsPercentIsraelProtectedPalestinianState GovernmentPlaying FieldsUnited States GovernmentPeace And SecurityLevel Playing Field Author:Bernie Sanders
“Our intervention to destabilize the Assad regime has really made the chaos worse in Syria. And if you were to get rid of Assad today, I would actually worry about the 2 million Christians that are protected by Assad.” IfsMadeTodayChristianMillionsWorryChaosRegimesProtectedSyriaInterventionAssad Author:Rand Paul
“Over the course of my career, I've had the great fortune of working with some incredible filmmakers who have protected me and inspired me and taught me what an honor it is to work in film.” FilmCoursesCareersTaughtHonorFortuneInspiredIncrediblesFilmmakerProtected Author:George Clooney
“The only thing I'd like to see is to give fighters an option to wear a small headguard, a one-ounce headguard. Some fighters might not want that option. But you know - you're training all the time, you're boxing all the time, and you've got a headguard on, you're using big gloves, and you're getting hit. And you observe that your face is better protected that way. Now they're doing it with ten-ounce gloves and no headguard. I think if they have a one-ounce headguard on to protect some of those brain cells in the head, it would be beneficial to the fighter.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayWantGivingBigsMightWould BeFacesBrainProtectTenTrainingFighterCellsBoxingYour FaceProtectedBeneficialGlovesBrain Cells Author:Larry Holmes
“For the rains and the rivers you need forests and you need to make sure these your forests are all protected, that there is no logging, that there is no charcoal burning and all the activities that destroy the forest. All this really needs to be done so that you can be able to grow good coffee, so that you can have an income, so that you can send your children to school, so that you can buy medicine, so that you can take them to hospitals, so that you can care for the women, especially mothers.” NeedsChildrenDoneCareAbleSchoolMotherGrowsActivityRainRiversOur ChildrenMedicineCoffeeIncomeForestsBurningYour ChildrenHospitalsProtectedCharcoalLoggingGood Coffee Author:Wangari Maathai
“The American government has spent a lot of money trying to reclaim, for example, the Everglades, and to allow the natural vegetation at the coastal areas to be restored because that was part of the vegetation that actually protected the hinterlands.” TryingGovernmentNaturalExampleAreasProtectedLots Of MoneyAmerican GovernmentVegetationCoastalEverglades Author:Wangari Maathai
“Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would take.” PersonsWould BeLawResultsWillingWelcomeAliensShoreProtectedExploitation Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“The human being is to be respected and defended, not protected like a bird or a river.” HumansHuman BeingsBirdRiversProtected Author:Rigoberta Menchu
“Human rights must be protected by the rule of law, and there can never be occasions where human rights can be neglected or ignored or the rule of law set aside.” HumansLawRightsHuman RightsOccasionsProtectedIgnoredNeglectedRule Of Law Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“People ask me all the time what it's like to work with my mother. I feel completely blessed because, first of all, this has given us an opportunity to enrich our relationship in ways we never could have imagined. Our time together is purely creative. It's unfettered by politics or the news of the day or aches and pains or family dramas or anything else. This time together is sort of golden and protected as being just creative time, which is heavenly.” PeopleWayFeelsFirstsPainTogetherMotherAsksOpportunityGivenCreativeDramaNewsBlessedGoldenAsk MeOur TimeHeavenlyProtectedOur RelationshipAcheFamily DramaTime TogetherAches And PainsOur Time Together Author:Emma Walton Hamilton
“As Abraham Lincoln said, if there is to be a superior position, he would rather that superior position be assigned to the White race. That superior position must be protected by those who believe in White supremacy and they will do everything in their power to make sure that that position will always be throughout the generations.” IfsBelieveSaidWhiteRaceGenerationsPositionSuperiorsProtectedWhite SupremacyAbrahamSupremacyWhite Race Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Of the five rights listed in the First Amendment. - religion, speech, press, assembly, petition - the very first right protected is freely exercising our religion.” FirstsFiveRightsExerciseSpeechPressesAmendmentsProtectedFirst AmendmentAssemblyPetitions Author:Steve Daines
“In the domain of pharmaceuticals, we need a metric for health impact, and with this metric we can then assess the value of the introduction of a new product and pay its innovator accordingly, say on the basis of the product's measured health impact during its first ten years on the market. In exchange, innovators must of course renounce the usual rewards they are otherwise entitled to, namely the patent-protected markup on the price of their product.” NeedsYearsFirstsValuesCoursesPayProductsTenBasesImpactRewardsUsualProtectedEntitledDomainIntroductionRenounceInnovatorsPatentsMetricsNew Products Author:Thomas Pogge
“Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have made a tremendous leap just by rejecting the neoliberal adjustment policies, they are making a statement from the social perspective. Capital in these cases has not been protected in any way which along with non - interference of the state is what neo liberalism stands for. It has gone the other way around; they have looked for social policies from the political movements and then when they have acquired the power of those political movements they have become in charge of the State.” WayMadeStatesPoliticalSocialCasesGonePolicyMovementPerspectiveStatementsLiberalismLeapProtectedAdjustmentInterferenceRejectingVenezuelaPolitical MovementsNicaraguaBoliviaEcuadorSocial Policy Author:Alejandro Castro Espin