#mission

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. ↗

— Benjamin Harrison

#god #police #world

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#commissioners #design #directed #england #force

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.' ↗

— Bobby Hull

#almost #commissioner #deja #deja vu #enough

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#behind #discussion #find #framework #kind

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#aptly #clear #commission #demonstrates #intelligence

It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#bound #christianity #culture #east #human

We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#believe #fact #fascists #fundamental #goal

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#free #insane #laugh #learning #lies

Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#children #commission #dangers #design #federal

If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#averted #been #commission #crisis #current