#rests

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#american #american interests #both #china #dialogue

The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#capability #figure #fully #good #interests

When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#cia #come #compromise #compromised #conclusion

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization. ↗

— George Catlin

#away #boundless #civilization #contemplated #forests

Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#attitude #compared #continues #could #different

Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting. ↗

— Paul Harris

#his #infrequently #leader #make #meeting

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#assertion #be careful #careful #designated #interests

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag! ↗

— Alexander Henry

#country #flag #hope #language #republic

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date. ↗

— John Hume

#believed #britain #date #defending #had

It is, and long has been my opinion, and I have heard honourable members in this House declare it to be theirs - that it is the duty of Parliament equally to protect all the different interests in the country. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#country #declare #different #duty #equally