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As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#denied #difference #diversity #i #in the past

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#expression #freedom #i #penalized #place

Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#american people #embarrassed #express #gratitude #immense

Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#back #because #behind #defer #go

Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days. ↗

— David Talbot

#company #could #days #done #enormous

People sort of take it for granted, but the more you see of the media world the more you appreciate a paper like the Times where its family continues to invest in editorial quality and I think it's the truly is the best paper in the world. ↗

— David Talbot

#best #continues #editorial #family #granted

The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in '90. We were locked in it for a year and a half and everyone came out of it. ↗

— David Talbot

#bush #bush presidency #came #course #cycle

When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you. ↗

— David Talbot

#blessing #dollars #duke #kept #lot

I would love to be able to serve in office in some capacity with Romney as president. ↗

— Jim Talent

#capacity #i #love #office #president

If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe. ↗

— Jim Talent

#commitment #extended #freedom #generation #generations