Position Quotes - Page 12

• Every time there has been an attempt to disturb it, it led to two things. It led to immediate intense conflict with China, and it led to a reaffirmation in the end, because nobody wanted a major confrontation with China to this principle of a "one China" policy within which Taiwan is finding a place now. Its own position has greatly improved since the Nixon policy. It is richer, it is stronger and it is participating in many international organizations.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Organization, Two, Stronger

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I would have said, before the World Trade Center events, that he would try to get a normal relationship with China - making clear to China what the limits are of what America can accept, but also showing understanding for some of Chinese necessities. I thought he was moving towards the position that I have more or less advocated.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Moving, America, Understanding

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• Everybody who has dealt with China over an extended period of time has come to more or less the same conclusions. There are nuances of differences, but not fundamental differences. I think that President Bush was heading in this direction, and I have no doubt that he will again wind up in this position. But right now he has to be preoccupied with the atrocity committed in New York and Washington.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  New York, Thinking, Wind

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• The position is that stability and peace in Asia depend on a cooperative relationship between China and the United States.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  United States, Asia, China

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• Where we are now is we have resolved the revenue issue and the question is what are we going to do about spending. I wish the president would lead us in this discussion rather than putting himself in a position of having to be dragged kicking and screaming to the table to discuss the single biggest issue confronting our future.

  Mitch McConnell

  Issues, Wish, President

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• A flip-flopper is an intelligent person who changes position when the circumstance changes.

  Peter Yarrow

  Intelligent, Flip, Circumstances

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• I don't have problems with my weight, I don't change weight but I think when you're gaining in age your position has to be beautiful.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Beautiful, Thinking, Age

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• In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story.

  Ronald Reagan

  Punishment, Favors, Want

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• The real challenge is figuring out how the United States can regain control of its future from its new oligarchy and restore its position as a prosperous, fair, well-educated nation. For if we don't, the current pattern of great concentration of wealth and power will worsen, and we may face the steady immiseration of most of the American population.

  Charles Ferguson

  Real, Concentration Of Wealth, Political

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• If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a better position to attenuate the disruptive expansionary tendencies of our economy.

  Hyman Minsky

  Political, Politics, Financial

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• The simplicity of the law by which the celestial bodies move, and the relations of their masses and distances, permit analysis to follow their motions up to a certain point; and in order to determine the state of the system of these great bodies in past or future centuries, it suffices for the mathematician that their position and their velocity be given by observation for any moment in time.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Distance, Moving, Science

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• Authority leads through position. Influence builds others out of relationship.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Influence, Authority

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• Some people are into position, not the mission.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, People, Missions

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• Pride takes many forms, but spiritual pride is the most grievous. To become proud of spiritual gifts or leadership position is to forget that all we have is from God, all the position we occupy is God's appointment.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Spiritual

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.152, Moody Publishers

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• Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?

  John Maynard Keynes

  Atheism, Information, Wells

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• I can remember saying again and again and again, "A terrible thing has happened, but this should be a kind of wake-up call for our country, and we have a great opportunity now to reinvent ourselves. To rethink our position about oil and energy, to rethink our relationship with other cultures and other countries, and why other people want to attack us."

  Paul Auster

  Country, Opportunity, Other Cultures

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Insperational, Where You Are, Standing

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• A lot of guys who have have never choked, have never been in the position to do so.

  Tom Watson

  Golf, Guy, Golfers

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• You have to decide what those issues are for you. What do you think disqualifies a person from holding public office? I believe that the endorsement of the right to kill unborn children disqualifies a person from any position of public office. It's simply the same as saying that the endorsement of racism, fraud, or bribery, would disqualify him - except that child-killing is more serious than those.

  John Piper

  Children, Believe, Thinking

  John Piper (2009). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.280, Multnomah

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• The next time you find yourself in an argument, rather than defend your position, see if you can see the other point of view first.

  Richard Carlson

  Funny, Witty, Stress

  Richard Carlson (1998). “The Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Workbook: Exercises, Questions, and Self-Tests to Help You Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life”, Hyperion

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• There's a second life involved. No matter what your position is on abortion or the death penalty, you shouldn't put a pregnant woman to death.

  George H. W. Bush

  Abortion, Matter, Death Penalty

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• The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.

  Francis George

  Light, Abortion, Moral

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• This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People who have spent all day learning how to sell themselves and to manipulate others are in no position to form lasting friendships or intimate relationships... Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society - one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security.

  Michael Lerner

  Spiritual, Caring, Tyrants

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• A person who believes that Elvis is still alive is very unlikely to get promoted to a position of great power and responsibility in our society. Neither will a person who believes that the holocaust was a hoax. But people who believe equally irrational things about God and the bible are now running our country. This is genuinely terrifying.

  Sam Harris

  Running, Country, Believe

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• Quite apart from our desire to avoid destroying the planet or economic meltdown, I offer another reason to position cooperation at the heart of our political economy: it will mean we are more likely to live sane, fruitful lives

  Oliver James

  Future, Mean, Heart

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