"I have said that I wanted a bill to pass before we left for the August recess, but I've also said that our members need the time . . . not only get the bill written but to have plenty of time to review it. . . . So, we're on schedule either to do it now or to do it whenever."(House Speaker Nancy Pelosi 7/27/09)
“I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill'. What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?” (House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich)
"We strongly believe that the religion and culture of all peoples must be respected and protected, and that all people should be free to speak their minds. That includes ethnic and religious minorities in China." (Barrack Obama speaking after 192 Muslims were killed in Xinjiang Province)
"Now that Operation Panther's Claw has shown that it can bring success and the first phase of that operation is over, it is time to commemorate all those soldiers who have given their lives and to thank all our British soldiers for the determination, the professionalism and the courage that they have been showing. What we have actually done is make the land secure for about 100,000 people. What we have done is pushed back the Taliban and what we have done also is start to break that chain of terror that links the mountains of Afghanistan and in Pakistan to the streets of Britain," Prime Minister Gordon Brown describing why the UK must continue military operations in Afghanistan.
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