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When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is. ↗

— Phylicia Rashad

#am #good #good work #i #i am

Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#alliance #almost #also #between #defence

I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces. ↗

— Dan Rather

#cave #down #forces #gets #great

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy. ↗

— Dan Rather

#democracy #fiercely #free #freedom #heart

As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new. ↗

— Dan Rather

#access #bargaining #been #campaigns #candidates

The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious. ↗

— Dan Rather

#bark #barks #dangerous #dog #good

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television. ↗

— Dan Rather

#art #best #blow #crude #day

So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#guts #just #many #need #preparation

There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#predict #started #technologies #you

To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#born #economic #end #energy #even