#conduct

This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America. ↗

— Louis A. Johnson

#any #autonomous #conduct #defense #disaster

I can conduct better than I count. ↗

— Eugene Ormandy

#conduct #count #i #i can #than

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#any #attack #been #conduct #down

The only conduct that merits the drastic remedy of impeachment is that which subverts our system of government or renders the president unfit or unable to govern. ↗

— Charles Ruff

#drastic #govern #government #impeachment #merits

The choice is not between conducting the stem cell research or not conducting it. That is not the choice. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#cell #cell research #choice #conducting #research

A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#courage #death #life #responsibility #courage

You Americans are a very singular people," he later recalled to one of his friends. "I went with my automaton all over my own country—the Germans wondered and said nothing. In France they exclaimed, Magnifique! Merveilleux! Superbe! The English set themselves to prove—one that it could be, and another that it could not be, a mere mechanism acting without a man inside. But I had not been long in your country, before a Yankee came to see me and said, 'Mr Maelzel, would you like another thing like that? I can make you one for five hundred dollars.' I laughed at his proposition. A few months afterwards, the same Yankee came to see me again, and this time he said, 'Mr Maelzel, would you like to buy another thing like that? I have one already made for you. ↗

— Tom Standage

#automata #conduct #life

Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#bringing #conduct #control #democratic #force

Conductors are performers. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#performers

We must correct the problems and inequities in the way we conduct and decide elections in the United States. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#correct #decide #elections #inequities #must