- Nov 07, 2020
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- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
- Community Action
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- Nov 07, 2020
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
- Debate
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.
- Grave
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any use of chemical weapons, by anyone, under any circumstances, is a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all humankind. Its success would strengthen international peace and security. It would free up vast and much-needed resources for social and economic development. It would advance the rule of law.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Businesses succeed when societies themselves succeed. When countries are affected by violence and the absence of the rule of law, business can and must be a messenger of peace.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
- Egypt
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- Nov 07, 2020