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The American people ask, and legitimately so, why should we carry the heavy burden to ensure international peace and stability. You also profit from it, so you should also take your share in the burden. That's Secretary Gates's message. I share that message. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#american #american people #ask #burden #carry

A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all? ↗

— Johannes Rau

#ago #asked #co-operative #composers #course

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact. ↗

— John Rawls

#citizens #criterion #enact #ideally #legislators

I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked. ↗

— Johnnie Ray

#am #answer #asked #business #constantly

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. ↗

— Sam Rayburn

#cannot #follow #how #know #leader

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#asking #first #first time #had #i

The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them for decades. Some of us even make our living by asking them, but we still don't agree about the answers. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#agree #answers #anymore #asking #been

Just having hope ain't going to cut it. You've got to have hope, passion and skills. ↗

— Tim Reid

#going #got #having #hope #just

A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it. ↗

— Carl Reiner

#develop #either #fellow #funny #get

I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt. ↗

— Janet Reno

#ask #concluded #could #death #death penalty