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Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq.
Peter DeFazio

Home, Government, Face

The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet.
Titus Flavius Vespasian

Dead, Sweet, Body

I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
Pat Morita

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you're doing, you're not doing it as well as you can. Don't think about publishing, don't think about editors, don't think about marketplace.
Andre Dubus III

Human, Writing, Creativity

It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.
Knute Nelson

Strength, War, Continue

I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.
Tancredo Neves

Friend, Made, Approach

Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.
Pratibha Patil

Good, Government, Together

There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even care if these people exist.
Boyd Rice

Care, Worst, Exist

Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.
Chrissie Hynde

Best, Friend, Artist

By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.
Nguyen Cao Ky

War, America, Fighting

Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners.
Dennis Ross

Important, Security, Common

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
Douglas Haig

War, Waiting, Victory

I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.
Shana Alexander

Woman, Natural, Perhaps

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.
Sophie Swetchine

Before, Another, Somebody

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
Sophie Swetchine

Dignity, Vanity, Constant

In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
Sophie Swetchine

Friend, Before, Another

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.
Ric Ocasek

Anyone, Secrecy, Efficiency

What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.
Arthur Hertzberg

American, Against, Unique

Technology isn't the enemy, it is our ally, but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I realize that we seem far from that model, but I have seen it in action and it is a beautiful thing. So I'm not willing to give up yet. Hope is the last thing to die.
Justin Sane

Hope, Technology, Beautiful

I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.
George Armstrong Custer

Soldier, Meet, Seeing

With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
Zack Wamp

Life, Freedom, Between

Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place.
John Buford

Place, State, Everybody

I can do nothing with the enemy save observe him.
John Buford

Nothing, Him, Save

We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.
John Buford

Time, Good, Him

Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation.
John Buford

Fight, After, Another

The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat.
John Pistole

Best, Technology, Trying

No plan survives contact with the enemy.
Tommy Franks

Plan, Contact, Survives

I'm not a fan almost anywhere of announcing to the enemy of what I'm going to do.
Tommy Franks

Almost, Anywhere, Fan

Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.
Henry Villard

Men, Thought, Far

We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.
Bill Nelson

Time, Past, Two

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