#nat

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public. ↗

— Elena Kagan

#appropriately #becomes #ceases #confirmation #discussion

Britain has taken itself out as a major player in the international system, at least for a while, with the kind of cuts that they've made in their national security budget. ↗

— Robert Kagan

#budget #cuts #international #itself #kind

I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#charm #explain #i #i can #jack

The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people. ↗

— Meir Kahane

#empires #existence #heart #indeed #jewish

The banding together by the nations of the world against Israel is the guarantee that their time of destruction is near and the final redemption of the Jew at hand. ↗

— Meir Kahane

#banding #destruction #final #guarantee #hand

The Jew is upset because the nations of the world - the United Nations - lash him, brand him as racist and evil, hate him and openly demonstrate their desire to destroy him. ↗

— Meir Kahane

#brand #demonstrate #desire #destroy #evil

A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#among #competing #fully #functioning #healthy

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#coming #conditions #criteria #decision #domestic

For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#any #billions #conviction #convinced #deprived

For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#both #exactly #fight #how #i