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We commend President Obama and his administration for taking this strong action against Iceland and its barbaric whaling industry... and we urge the President to take similar action against Japan and Norway as well!

We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.

When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.

But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

Everything in our favour was against us.

Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it.

The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.

I think when you talk about competing against others, the problem is that you refer to something that's been done already and try to beat it.

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible.

I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigration.

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.

I am the person who is a mother against drunk driver.

We ask them to remove the missiles deployed against Taiwan, give up their military threat, and instead let us together open the door to cross-Strait peaceful and stable dialogue and negotiations.

There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.