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I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people. Jim Mattis
People Thought Never American Patronize American People Necessary
It's a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don't sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day. Jim Mattis
Day You Every Day Every Easier Sign Stay Idealistic Lot Five Letters Two
The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East. Jim Mattis
Peace Mind Single East Threat Most Iranian Iranian Regime Stability Middle Middle East Enduring Regime
Notifying the enemy in advance of our withdrawal dates or reassuring the enemy that we will not use certain capabilities like our ground forces should be avoided. Jim Mattis
Enemy Will Our Dates Advance Like Withdrawal Forces Capabilities Certain Should Use Ground Avoided Reassuring
It is not scientifically possible to accurately predict the outcome of an action. To suggest otherwise runs contrary to historical experience and the nature of war. Jim Mattis
War Nature Experience Predict Action Otherwise Possible Outcome Runs Scientifically Historical Contrary Accurately Suggest
Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible. Jim Mattis
Great Enemy Our Cost Afghanistan Achieved Against Gains
The military can buy our diplomats some time. Jim Mattis
Buy Time Military Our Some Diplomats
What is the one country in the Middle East that has not been attacked by ISIS? One. That is Iran. That is more than happenstance, I'm sure. Jim Mattis
Country One Country East More Attacked Sure Been Iran Than Middle Middle East Happenstance
If you can't eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don't bring it. Jim Mattis
You Wear Eat Shoot Bring
We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11. Jim Mattis
Terrorism Crises Recognize Know Did Start
Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle. Jim Mattis
Good Sometimes Everybody Bad Bad Guys Seems Guys Like Middle Good Guys
What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt. Jim Mattis
Halt Achieved Pause Nuclear
Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had. Jim Yong Kim
Education Health Champion Water Kind Had Global Same Sanitation Even
Look at the problem of drug-resistant TB in the world. Look at HIV in the world. What's going to be required for everybody in the long run is the ability to do complex health interventions in poor settings. Jim Yong Kim
Health Problem World Long Everybody Settings Complex Run Ability Long Run Look HIV Going Poor Required
World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation. Jim Yong Kim
Economic Development World Poverty Focused Economic Development Bank World Bank
Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies so that the growth creates good jobs, especially for young people, especially for women, especially for the poorest who have been excluded from the economic system. Jim Yong Kim
Good Women People Will Poverty Young Good Jobs Unless Ways System Critical Jobs Find Able Economic Never Economic System Excluded Economies Also Been End Young People Poorest Creates Who Growing Growth Need
What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you've got to look hard to find every piece of data and evidence that you can to improve your decision-making. Medicine has taught me to be very much evidence-based and data-driven in making decisions. Jim Yong Kim
Work Me You Complicated Problems Physician Every Medicine Evidence Find Data Look Most Piece Learned Got Making Making Decisions Very Improve Taught Patients Decision-Making Decisions Much Your Hard Even
Institutionalized discrimination is bad for people and for societies. Widespread discrimination is also bad for economies. There is clear evidence that when societies enact laws that prevent productive people from fully participating in the workforce, economies suffer. Jim Yong Kim
People Evidence Bad Laws Prevent Clear Participating Economies Institutionalized Also Enact Discrimination Workforce Productive Fully Suffer Societies Widespread
Hope is a moral choice. Jim Yong Kim
Hope Moral Choice
The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation. Jim Yong Kim
Relationship Meditation Changes Between Fundamentally
I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation. Jim Yong Kim
Own Patient Meditation Kinder My Own More Feel Like
Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians. Jim Yong Kim
Few Benefit Must Haiti Haitian Economy Built Privileged Just Cannot
A lot of young people don't think they can make a difference. That's really what I am at Dartmouth to do. I'm there to tell the young people, 'Look, a few committed souls can change the world.' Jim Yong Kim
Change People World Few Young Think Change The World Tell Look Make Make A Difference Souls Am Lot Committed Difference Young People Really
My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen his brothers or sisters or parents since then. And he died some time ago, but never saw any of his relatives. My mother was a refugee in war-torn Korea. Jim Yong Kim
Time Mother Father Relatives Seen Parents Seventeen Saw Border Some Brothers Never He Since Himself Korea Korean Came His North Sisters North Korean Died Any Refugee Then Across
If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the vast majority of jobs in the world, and social protection only goes so far. Jim Yong Kim
World Protection Care Poverty Sector Jobs About Only Vast Vast Majority Investments Majority Private Lot Private Sector Goes Social Far Creates
I've always been engaged in social protection programmes. Jim Yong Kim
Protection Programmes Always Been Social Engaged
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