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Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets. Eric Holder

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Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. Ernest Bevin

People Scapegoat Look Always Unintelligent

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken. George Tenet

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No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family. J. Edgar Hoover

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Public policy is a study in imperfection. It involves imperfect people, with imperfect information, facing deeply imperfect choices - so it's not surprising that they're getting imperfect results. Jake Sullivan

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Our obligation is to refuse to let bad win, to refuse to let evil hold the field. James Comey

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The Internet is the most dangerous parking lot imaginable. But if you were crossing a mall parking lot late at night, your entire sense of danger would be heightened. You would stand straight. You'd walk quickly. You'd know where you were going. You would look for light. James Comey

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The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly. Janet Reno

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I would just say there is one misperception of our veterans, and that is they are somehow damaged goods. I don't buy it. Jim Mattis

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I can't tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I'd done so much reading. Jim Mattis

No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans. Jim Mattis

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It's very hard to live with yourself if you don't stick with your moral code. Jim Mattis

You Yourself Live Moral Stick Very Your Hard Code

Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong. John Foster Dulles

Decision Thought Made Once Out Had Wrong Wrong Decision Along Course Been Years Years Ago Turned Many Right

What matters is that there is somewhere for those who are troubled, threatened or afraid to turn to in their darkest hour. What matters is that there are those who are willing and able to use the law as an instrument of inclusion, of protection, and of freedom. Loretta Lynch

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I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace. Markus Wolf

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle. Markus Wolf

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I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service. Markus Wolf

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I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what portfolio of issue you're pushing, nothing is going to get done. Richard Carmona

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance. Robert Bork

Every Republican president starting with Lincoln - and for almost 100 years thereafter - generally supported tariffs, while Democrats tended to promote free trade. Robert Lighthizer

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