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However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises.
Warren E. Burger

Public, Values, Interest

Don't believe those who claim that only left wing parties really care about employment.
Kjell Magne Bondevik

Care, Left, Parties

There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority.
John Breaux

Good, Nothing, Victory

Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners.
James Kent

Religion, Strength, Government

It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.
Charlie Simpson

The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.
John Bates Clark

Nature, Power, Action

No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.'
Ciaran Hinds

Democracy, Tell, Nation

I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire.
Robin Morgan

Time, Woman, Her

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.
Timothy Garton Ash

Democracy, Terrorism, Middle

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.
Michael Steele

Work, Struggle, Fight

I did not claim that speciation occurs only in founder populations.
Ernst Mayr

Founder, Occurs

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.
Ernst Mayr

Change, Small, Theory

Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise.
James Donald

Remember, Though, Left

Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.
Chris Van Allsburg

Success, Great, Art

As busy as I claim to be, I've still got the greatest job in the world.
Peter Criss

Greatest, Job, Busy

Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.
Walter Russell Mead

Future, End, Past

Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
Patrick MacGill

Health, Perfect, Matter

I was telling somebody just the other day, there's technically such a hierarchy in this business. You have film, that's the ideal; then you have TV, and things like web series do not claim as much cred, but the fact is, if the material is solid and I believe and trust in the team that's involved, I don't care what format it is.
Tony Hale

Trust, Business, Care

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
A. B. Yehoshua

Losing, Capacity, Contribute

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.
Jane Haddam

Art, Fame, Whose

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.
Jon Corzine

Love, Words, Nation

There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.
Stephen Carter

Black, Forgotten, Lack

Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.
Yukihiro Matsumoto

Design, Someone, Saying

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
Susan Griffin

Past, Next, Generation

I do not know it all and do not claim to.
David Pratt

When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
Patricia Schroeder

Women, Men, Children

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
Paul Eldridge

Rules, Whose, Discovery

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.
Frederic William Farrar

Learned, Worse, Gambling

The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
Gary Lucas

Single, Desire, Both

There are many outsiders that actively try to halt every natural resource development project in Alaska. Many of these same people have never even been to Alaska, yet they claim to know what's best for us.
Lisa Murkowski

Best, Try, Same

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