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The United States needs to stop putting Israel's wants above Palestinian rights.
Maysoon Zayid
Needs
Rights
States
Above
Putting
Israel
Stop
Wants
United
United States
Palestinian
The truth is that the dream of 'two states for two peoples,' born in the '90s, died in the noughties. The two-state solution, the popular and principled option for so long now, is neither practical nor possible.
Mehdi Hasan
Truth
Truth Is
People
Long
States
Possible
Neither
Dream
Solution
Born
Practical
Principled
Nor
Option
Died
Popular
Now
Two
Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity.
Meir Kahane
Important
Down
States
Punish
Those
Hunt
More
Allow
Never
Simply
Support
Arm
Deal
Territories
Terrorists
Impunity
Them
Used
Groups
Fund
Ever
Yes, Donald thinks big, which is especially important when considering the presidency of the United States. No room for small thinking. No room for small results. Donald gets things done.
Melania Trump
Important
Big
Thinking
Presidency
Considering
States
Small
Results
Yes
Donald
Gets
Done
Which
Room
United
United States
Things
Thinks
I always wanted to play a nun, and to play the Reverend Mother was a thrill of a lifetime for me. But, generations back, my family were not churchgoers, which is an unusual thing in the United States.
Melissa Leo
Family
Me
Mother
Nun
Back
States
Thrill
Lifetime
Generations
Unusual
Always
Reverend
Were
Wanted
Which
United
United States
Play
Thing
Nothing can be clearer than that what the Constitution intended to guard against was the exercise by the general government of the power of directly taxing persons and property within any State through a majority made up from the other States.
Melville Fuller
Government
Property
Constitution
Made
Power
Nothing
Guard
Other
State
States
General
Directly
Through
Clearer
Majority
Exercise
Within
Up
Than
Intended
Any
Against
Persons
Taxing
While the United States is a prime example of fair elections, there is room for improvement, starting with passing voter identification laws across the country.
Mercedes Schlapp
Example
Country
States
Laws
Prime
Voter
Fair
Identification
Passing
Improvement
While
Room
Elections
Across
United
United States
Starting
We should not have to experience the fear of intimidation or retaliation in the United States.
Mercedes Schlapp
Experience
Fear
States
Intimidation
Retaliation
Should
United
United States
With increasing poverty, welfare dependency and violence in the United States, religion and religious organizations have an important role to play combating societal problems.
Mercedes Schlapp
Religion
Welfare
Problems
Poverty
Important
Increasing
States
Religious
Important Role
Role
Dependency
Organizations
United
United States
Play
Societal
Violence
My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.
Mia Love
Opportunity
Parents
States
About
Pocket
Had
Exist
Heard
America
Did
Land
Really
Belief
United
United States
Competitive programs such as Race to the Top provide incentives for communities to develop new solutions for old problems. Because of Race to the Top, states have raised their standards and committed to fixing schools that have persistently failed students.
Michael Bennet
Problems
Old
Programs
Top
States
Solutions
Students
Develop
Failed
New
Schools
Because
Provide
Fixing
Committed
Race
Communities
Incentives
Standards
Raised
Competitive
What matters - the only thing that matters - is winning. It's nice to entertain the fans and to gain new ones, especially from the States, but on the night... that's all that matters.
Michael Bisping
Fans
Matters
Nice
States
Entertain
Only
Winning
New
New Ones
The Only Thing
Gain
Thing
Night
The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States.
Michael Bloomberg
You
CIA
People
Will
States
Only
Impeccable
Outside
Never
Hire
Translator
Means
Lived
United
Credentials
United States
But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.
Michael D. Barnes
You
Gun
States
Magazines
Only
Various
Joining
Insurance
Get
Owners
Want
United
United States
Million
Things
If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started.
Michael D. Barnes
Today
War
Day
Home
Will
Our
Typical
States
Citizens
Entire
More
Weeks
Since
Fellow
Fellow Citizens
Iraq
Than
America
American
Die
Died
Your
United
United States
Here
Started
Last
Two
Two Weeks
A person seeking to be the President of the United States should not suggest violence in any way.
Michael Hayden
President
Way
States
Seeking
Person
Any
Should
United
United States
Suggest
Violence
I don't want to be overly dramatic, but Iraq and Syria are gone, and they aren't coming back, at least not as centralized states.
Michael Hayden
Gone
Dramatic
Back
States
Syria
Least
Overly
Coming
Iraq
Want
Centralized
The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states. As a result, human rights conventions are unique among international law instruments in depending for their enforcement mostly on the activism of a global civil society movement.
Michael Ignatieff
Work
Rights
Law
Result
Human Rights
Society
States
Those
Civil
Civil Society
Put
Abuse
Global
Naming
Instruments
Mostly
Governments
Commit
Human
Depending
Movement
Conventions
Enforcement
Who
International
Unique
International Law
Activism
Among
Core
It is curious that the two best-known British historians in the United States are Andrew Roberts and Niall Ferguson, each of whom represents, in fact, a different school of serious historical writing, and both of whom seem to have gained for themselves, perhaps without intending to, a special reputation on the American right.
Michael Korda
Writing
School
Reputation
States
Andrew
Seem
Both
Fact
Perhaps
Roberts
Without
Ferguson
Historians
Historical
Curious
American
Intending
Represents
Different
In Fact
Gained
Themselves
Special
Each
Serious
Whom
United
United States
Right
Two
British
What is unusual about the United States - and it's something that I have never gotten used to - is that Jews here, there are so many of them, and they are so important to the culture.
Michael Lynton
Culture
Important
Jews
States
About
Something
Never
Unusual
Gotten
Them
Used
Many
United
United States
Here
Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.
Michael Mandelbaum
Me
You
First
States
Threats
Remind
Policy
Reduce
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Task
American
American Foreign Policy
United
United States
American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.
Michael Mandelbaum
World
Benefits
Power
Oppose
States
Unprecedented
Some
Constructive
Major
Most
Because
Historically
Role
American
Dislike
Planet
Inhabitants
Who
Many
Even
Actively
United
United States
Plays
The United States plays, for the most part, a constructive global role, and to the extent that that role shrinks, other countries, even those most critical of what America does abroad, will suffer.
Michael Mandelbaum
Will
Other
Other Countries
States
Those
Critical
Abroad
Constructive
Part
Countries
Global
Most
Does
Role
America
Even
Suffer
United
Shrinks
United States
Extent
Plays
The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.
Michael Mandelbaum
Peace
Trust
Conflict
States
Both
Between
Armed
Powers
Buffer
Another
While
Regional
Fully
Preparing
United
United States
Among
Serving
American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.
Michael Mandelbaum
Politics
World
Economics
Few
Control
Other
Considerable
Rule
States
Out
Cases
Directly
Indirectly
Exceptions
Empires
Does
Always
Prove
American
Done
Influence
Turn
Certainly
Special
United
United States
Societies
Save
The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.
Michael Mandelbaum
Government
World
States
Out
Nobody
Altruistic
Does
Reasons
United
United States
Set
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