#tries

If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#deny #disaster #how #insecure #least

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#cases #countries #essential #even #made

The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries. ↗

— Ed Royce

#department #elements #idea #influence #mantra

The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. The U.S. should also support other countries, including Ghana, in ECOMOG until stability is established. ↗

— Ed Royce

#countries #established #ghana #government #including

I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#call #capitalism #corporate #economics #economy

Through the Young Men's Christian Association and principally in Australia and North America, as well as in South America, I came into contact with families of these countries. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#association #australia #came #christian #contact

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men. ↗

— Giorgos Seferis

#domain #exists #heart #large #men

She's true to herself and she's determined. She has things going against her, but she forges ahead despite all of that. I think that's encouraging. She's got some problems, but she has hope and tries to plow through things. I think that's a good role model. ↗

— Molly Shannon

#ahead #despite #determined #encouraging #forges

The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race. ↗

— Karl Shapiro

#good #hands #his #hold #human

The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#certain #countries #dangerous #democracies #democracy