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We looked at the intelligence assessment process, and we've come to the conclusion that it is broken, ... American Morning.


Joseph Cirincione

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BRADY DEATON I think they have purposely not looked at facts they should have looked at to come to a balanced and...
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brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
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Come when you're looked for, or come without warnin...
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MICHAEL HARRIS The whole process is broken.
NEWT GINGRICH we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
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MARK LAWRENCE A Dark time comes.
My time.
If it offends you.
Stop Me.
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ANDY TALLEY We are happy this process has reached a conclusion and look forward to moving ahead together.
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ADAM SCHIFF At this point, we're looking mainly to see whether a company's risk assessment capabilities are broa...
DAVID INGRAM When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
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GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
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ANITA FOSTER That morning everything looked like it was alright.
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LEWIS MUMFORD One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solel...
LEWIS MUMFORD Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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JOHN O. BRENNAN I join you, therefore, in sincere congratulations that this den of the priesthood is at length broke...
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JOSEPH ADDISON The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISON The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment,...
JOSEPH ADDISON What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself ...
JOSEPH CONRAD I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past yea...
JOSEPH CONRAD In sissy times, like these, one
JOSEPH BRODSKY Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later,...
JOSEPH BRODSKY The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
JOSEPH JOUBERT The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily -- and perhaps most tellingly -- descr...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subs...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means pr...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER