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Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized; school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

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The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

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Right now, a majority of the debt is owed to foreign interests, Japan being the largest purchaser of government debt today, soon to be surpassed by China as the number one purchaser of our debt in this Nation. ↗

— Ron Kind

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We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically. ↗

— Ron Kind

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Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

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I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

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Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

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The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

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