Council Quotes - Page 6

• The other thing that really I regretted not being able to do was to push effectively for the reform of the Security Council. Because the world was changing, and is changing very fast, and I felt the UN was holding on to old arrangements. Most governments felt that it has such a narrow power base, based on the results of the second world war.

  Kofi Annan

  War, Government, Able

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• I know people want to run for public office, for mayor, for city council. These are people who now want to change the country. Now, getting from here to there, it's a lot of hard work. And I think that the political revolution has just started.

  Jonathan Tasini

  Running, Country, Hard Work

  "A Look At Where Bernie Sanders' Movement Goes From Here". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 30, 2016.

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• I've known Carolyn [Maloney] for years, by the way. I knew her when she was on the City Council and knew her when she was - when she was running, and we endorsed her very early when she ran for Congress, yet I didn't know some of the stories in here of herself and her struggle, and - and she makes a very - you know, it's - it pulls your heart as well as - but it's very practical.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Running, Struggle, Heart

  Source: www.blogher.com

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• [The spirit of party] serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another.

  George Washington

  Party, Community, Alarms

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.8

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• The Cheney team had, for example, technological supremacy over the National Security Council staff. That is to say, they could read their e-mails. I remember one particular member of the N.S.C. staff wouldn't use e-mail because he knew they were reading it. He did a test case, kind of like the Midway battle, when we'd broken the Japanese code. He thought he'' broken the code, so he sent a test e-mail out that he knew would rile Scooter [Libby], and within an hour Scooter was in his office.

  Lawrence Wilkerson

  Team, Reading, Broken

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• Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse.

  Peter King

  Islamic, Years, America

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• I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.

  Michael Longley

  Art, Might, Firsts

  Scottish Review of Books Interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.

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• You know, we had the elections earlier in the week, and a dead woman, in Pennsylvania, somehow was on the ballot and she was elected to city council. A dead woman actually elected! And I'm thinking, well, I guess there is still hope for Al Gore.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Cities, Pennsylvania

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• Councils of War never fight.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Theodore Roosevelt (2001). “The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt”, Cooper Square Pub

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• The candidates at the Republican debate looked like a town council that was outlawing dancing. They looked like a board of directors that was lying about poisoning a river.

  David Letterman

  Lying, Rivers, Dancing

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• From now on, nothing is impossible for Israel, which is a normal country like any other. We won't wait another half a century to sit on the Security Council.

  Dan Gillerman

  Country, Israel, Waiting

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• Reporting Iran's dossier to the UN security council will be unconstructive and the end of diplomacy.

  Ali Larijani

  Iran, Ends, Diplomacy

  "Iran nuclear crisis sent to security council" by Ewen MacAskill, Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2006.

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• We expect the Taiwan authorities publicly to correct the record and unambiguously affirm that the February 27 announcement did not abolish the National Unification Council, did not change the status quo, and that the assurances remain in effect.

  Joseph Adam Ereli

  Taiwan, Records, Affirmation

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• When diplomacy has been exhausted, the Security Council must become involved. Questions about Iran's nuclear activities remain unanswered, despite repeated efforts by the IAEA.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Iran, Effort, Nuclear

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• Today's announcement projects a picture of profound weakness in U.S. diplomacy. It should not have been a heavy lift for our diplomats in New York and in foreign capitals to recruit the necessary 96 affirmative votes to seat the United States in the new council.

  Tom Lantos

  New York, Profound, Weakness

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• Whether we report Iran to the council or not, I believe the only way forward is through diplomacy.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Believe, Iran, Way Forward

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• The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after the council. The relatively modest changes of those years thawed the ice in which Catholicism had been frozen since the French Revolution.

  Andrew Greeley

  Running, Men, Years

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• The [UN Security Council] P5 ought to be dissuaded from using their veto power, which can paralyze the United Nations. The country blocking action ought to have to explain its decision and propose an alternative solution. It has been suggested that a veto only becomes effective if the vetoing state has the support of two or three other permanent members.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Block, Two

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

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• This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they'll get rid of me, too.

  Bobby Knight

  Long, Guarantees, Towns

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• The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he convened the Council of Nice to decide whether Jesus Christ was a man or the Son of God. The council decided that Christ was consubstantial with the father. This was in the year 325. We are thus indebted to a wife-murderer for settling the vexed question of the divinity of the Savior.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Jesus, Father, Nice

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.776, Library of Alexandria

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• My tribulations are so great, my life so disturbed by the plans daily invented to further the King's wicked intention, the surprises which the King gives me, with certain persons of his council, are so mortal, and my treatment is what God knows, that it is enough to shorten ten lives, much more mine.

  Catherine of Aragon

  Kings, Giving, Wicked

  "Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen" by Joanna Denny, Da Capo Press, (p. 175), 2006.

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• The council in Blackpool have given the homeless bus passes, but how would they know where to get off?

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Homeless

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• Actually, I think all addiction starts with soda. Every junkie did soda first. But no one counts that. Maybe they should. The soda connection is clear. Why isn't a presidential commission looking into this? Or at least some guys from the National Carbonation Council.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• There is a different spelling between "rights" and "rites" - in other words, civic legislators and ecclesiastical councils have different responsibilities.

  Otis Moss III

  Responsibility, Rights, Different

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• The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a national neurotic society of creative leaders in various fields of fashion.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, America, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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