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The United States is a leader across a broad range of scientific disciplines. Our technological prowess is part of our greatness as a nation. Sadly, among the rich industrialized nations, we also lead by a substantial margin in the rate of poverty among children.
Margaret Geller
Poverty
Leader
Nation
Rich
Broad
Our
States
Range
Rate
Lead
Part
Sadly
Also
Industrialized
Disciplines
Scientific
Greatness
Prowess
Nations
Substantial
Children
Across
United
United States
Among
Margin
Technological
It is true that large parts of the world have not had to endure state-to-state wars for decades. The majority of the world's nations have also been spared the scourge of civil wars, although many have known violence from revolutionary insurrection.
Margaret MacMillan
World
Civil
Civil Wars
Had
True
Also
Majority
Known
Although
Parts
Insurrection
Been
Scourge
Decades
Revolutionary
Nations
Endure
Spared
Wars
Large
Many
Violence
Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
Marquis De Custine
Best
Good
Otherwise
Always
Nations
Being
Cannot
Reasons
There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing.
Martha Smith
Example
First
Country
United Nations
Complete
India
Proposed
Countries
Like
For Example
Protest
Came
Testing
Tests
Lot
Ban
Bravo
Stopped
Nations
After
Which
Should
Forward
United
Nuclear
Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.
Mathieu Kerekou
Strong
Free
Community
Our
Our Planet
Comforted
Proud
Nations
Whether
Poor
Noteworthy
Us
Planet
Poorest
Stand
Less
Let Us
United
Among
Belonging
Mass migrations of climate refugees erode borders and nations, creating a global playground for terrorists and traffickers.
Matt Gaetz
Borders
Mass
Global
Climate
Terrorists
Refugees
Nations
Migration
Creating
Playground
The catechism says rich nations should welcome strangers within the limits of the possible. In Italy, we have reached the limits of the possible.
Matteo Salvini
Welcome
Rich
Strangers
Says
Possible
Reached
Within
Limits
Italy
Nations
Should
I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We'd go to this British pub to watch the 'Six Nations' early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red.
Matthew Rhys
Time
Morning
People
Remember
First
Red
First Time
Welsh
Go
Walked
Shocked
Six
Just
Nations
Pub
Sea
Amount
Watch
Early
British
Donald intends to represent all the people, not just some of the people. That includes Christians and Jews and Muslims; it includes Hispanics and African Americans and Asians, and the poor and the middle-class. Throughout his career, Donald has successfully worked with people of many faiths and with many nations.
Melania Trump
People
Jews
Muslims
Some
Throughout
Faiths
His
Hispanics
American
Donald
Represent
Just
Nations
African
African Americans
Poor
Asians
Worked
Successfully
Many
Career
Christians
Democratic self-government has manifestly brought benefits to India, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, South Africa, South Korea, and scores of nations all making their way in the world.
Michael Gove
World
Benefits
South Africa
Way
India
Brought
Democratic
Self-Government
Korea
Making
South
Scores
South Korea
Nations
Norway
Africa
Japan
Switzerland
What makes the United Nations an appropriate source of legitimacy for intervention is that it is the only place where the claims of the strong are put through the test of justification in front of the weak.
Michael Ignatieff
Strong
United Nations
Intervention
Appropriate
Weak
Claims
Only
Through
Put
Makes
Test
Source
Front
Nations
Legitimacy
Where
Place
Justification
United
Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application.
Michael Ignatieff
Leadership
Legal
Trials
Crook
United Nations
Setting
Nuremberg
Soldiers
Hook
Franklin
Citizens
Promoted
Seeking
Since
Institutions
Exempt
Up
Norms
American
American Citizens
Nations
While
Them
Roosevelt
Enforce
United
Actual
Application
Universal
We in Britain do not have the same capabilities as the United States, but we are members of the United Nations Security Council. And we take our obligations and duties deriving from that very seriously.
Michael Portillo
Obligations
Seriously
United Nations
Our
States
Members
Security
Security Council
Council
Take
Very
Same
Duties
Nations
Capabilities
United
United States
Britain
I do believe - I very strongly believe that the Arab nations would be willing to put together an Arab NATO-like structure.
Michael T. Flynn
Together
Believe
Arab
Willing
Would
Would-Be
Strongly
Structure
Put
Very
Nations
The Arab nations must be on our side. And if we catch them financing, if they funnel money to IS, that's when sanctions and other actions have to kick in.
Michael T. Flynn
Money
Other
Side
Our
Kick
Arab
Must
Financing
Catch
Nations
Sanctions
Them
Actions
How does the past ambush us? How can we be accurate about what happened, how can we be true to it? And can war be declared over? And can we ever evolve from the notion of war, of nations, of us versus them?
Michael Winter
War
Be True
Past
Evolve
About
True
Over
Does
How
Versus
Accurate
Nations
Happened
Them
Us
Notion
Ever
The great gift of 'Incarceration Nations' is that, by introducing a wide range of approaches to crime, punishment, and questions of justice in diverse countries - Rwanda, South Africa, Brazil, Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore, Australia and Norway - it forces us to face the reality that American-style punishment has been chosen.
Michelle Alexander
Great
Justice
Reality
Gift
Crime
Face
South Africa
Brazil
Approaches
Range
Punishment
Has-Been
Great Gift
Introducing
Diverse
Countries
Singapore
Forces
Uganda
Been
South
Questions
Australia
Nations
Norway
Africa
Jamaica
Us
Incarceration
Chosen
Wide
Wide Range
The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.
Michelle Bachelet
Become
United Nations
Dissemination
Democratic
Principles
Proactive
Nations
Agent
Should
United
Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.
Mike Jackson
Free
National
Military
See
Through
Particularly
Tidy
Operations
Friction
Campaign
Contributing
Nations
Cannot
Coalition
Military Operations
Whose
Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.
Mike Jackson
National
Retain
Forces
Least
Command
America
Nations
Full
We defeated communism in part by showing the world that a commitment to democracy and expanding economic opportunity makes people's lives better and nations more secure, meaning our commitments overseas also makes us stronger and safer here at home.
Mike Quigley
Home
Democracy
Commitment
Communism
People
World
Better
Opportunity
Stronger
Our
Secure
More
Economic
Economic Opportunity
Part
Also
Safer
Makes
Overseas
Expanding
Commitments
Nations
Meaning
Us
Showing
Lives
Defeated
Here
As the largest contributor to the United Nations and funder of international family planning, the U.S. is in a unique position to continue to lead the global agenda and place reproductive health at its core.
Mike Quigley
Health
Family
Family Planning
United Nations
Lead
Global
Continue
Contributor
Nations
Reproductive
Place
Agenda
Planning
International
Unique
United
Largest
Core
Position
Keeping small nations enslaved because of the deals between the great nations or because of any pragmatic considerations that might have been there are totally unacceptable.
Mikheil Saakashvili
Great
Considerations
Enslaved
Unacceptable
Totally
Great Nations
Small
Small Nations
Between
Because
Pragmatic
Deals
Been
Any
Nations
Might
Keeping
By unwillingly robbing post-conflict nations of their most talented people, we in Europe are improving the odds these states fail, and feed the vicious circle of future conflicts.
Miroslav Lajcak
Future
People
Circle
Odds
States
Feed
Fail
Talented
Talented People
Robbing
Most
Unwillingly
Improving
Nations
Vicious
Conflicts
Europe
The E.U. should pay more attention to the plight of African nations hosting large numbers of refugees themselves - at times for decades.
Miroslav Lajcak
Pay
Plight
More
Hosting
Attention
Times
Decades
Refugees
Nations
African
Themselves
Should
Large
Large Numbers
Numbers
The United Nations has an irreplaceable role in dealing with global issues. While other international bodies play important roles, the U.N. is the only truly global arena where we can achieve results for the global good.
Miroslav Lajcak
Good
Achieve
Important
United Nations
Other
Only
Arena
Results
Global
Dealing
Important Roles
Issues
Truly
Role
Roles
Irreplaceable
Nations
Where
While
Bodies
International
United
Play
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