Regions Quotes - Page 14

• The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

  Barack Obama

  Issues, Middle East, Century

  "Paul Ryan: Good for GOP, bad for comedy" by Dean Obeidallah, www.cnn.com. August 19, 2012.

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• In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.

  Leon Panetta

  Asia, Prosperity, Century

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• China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the whole issue of Korea and the stability of Korea, the whole issue of nuclear proliferation, the whole issue of providing free access to our ships that are operating in that area.

  Leon Panetta

  Thinking, Korea, Issues

  "Panetta: 'Human Side' Makes Pentagon Cuts Tough". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 8, 2012.

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• We had about 60 regions in Greece and now there are only 13. It'd be like cutting down 50 states to 13 and making it more efficient.

  George Papandreou

  Cutting, States, Greece

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• The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

  Paracelsus

  Giving, Physicians, Patient

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.58, Princeton University Press

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• For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.

  Paracelsus

  Country, Wine, Meat

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.58, Princeton University Press

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• As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

  Jean Paul

  Birthday, Time, Winter

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• Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, Technology, Iraq

  "Where Bush got his marching orders" by Jack Ammann, www.cnet.com. October 16, 2004.

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• My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.

  Shimon Peres

  Struggle, Heart, Sacrifice

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• The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.

  Shimon Peres

  People, Middle East, Hegemony

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• Engaging Iran won't guarantee improved U.S.-Iranian relations or a more stable Gulf region. But not engaging means more of the same.

  Samantha Power

  Mean, Iran, Guarantees

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• And we believe that our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Iraq, People, Neighbor

  "Condoleezza Rice interview for Al Jazeera TV". www.independent.co.uk. October 15, 2001.

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• Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

  Bertrand Russell

  Math, Conformity, Absolutes

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• Europe today is the most secular region in the world. Europe is the only region in the world experiencing population decline. Wherever you turn today the more religious the community, the larger on average are their families.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Average, Europe

  "Falling birth rate is killing Europe, says chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks" by Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2009.

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• Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.

  Jose Saramago

  Latin, Ambition, America

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• I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Axes, Ice, Snow

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• Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

  Sivananda

  Real, Religion, Argument

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• Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

  Robert Smithson

  Art, Faster, Explosives

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.41, Univ of California Press

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• It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.

  Baldwin Spencer

  Law, Hemisphere, World

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• I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any role at the U.N, but I'm still quite cooperative with a number of U.N. activities, in particular to China and that region.

  Maurice Strong

  Numbers, Roles, China

  "Maurice Strong on climate 'conspiracy', Bilberberg and population control" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2010.

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• Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to those who replace them. It's remarkable that this redistribution can happen so smoothly and quickly, with devastated regions reinventing themselves in a matter of months.

  James Surowiecki

  Construction Workers, Cities, Matter

  "Creative Destruction?" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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• I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my TVs gathering dust until eventually I unplug them so I can put in another special-region DVD player.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Player, Dvds, Dust

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• We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we'll have ample warning time. If an earthquake or terrorist attack hits, we won't necessarily have advance alerts or opportunities to double- and triple-check our plans.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Opportunity, Earthquakes, Warning

  "Martyrs in Paradise". Book by Terry Reese Downing, 2009.

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• Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, Lying, Islands

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• In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

  Stewart Udall

  Population, Growing, Doing Nothing

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