#si

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#constitutional #framework #good #i #i think

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#community #degeneration #fact #field #general

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#courage #generosity #i #thank #want

But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#ask #before #blair #clear #country

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#blair #consider #human #human rights #jack

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#does #generally #hear #him #hurt

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off. ↗

— Nicholas Brendon

#lifting #like #me #off #paid

I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks. ↗

— John O. Brennan

#attacks #believed #better #detain #disrupt

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#clause #confession #due #embodied #fairness

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

#became #chemical #chemicals #chemistry #enough