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Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

For the past several years, the Meth Caucus has worked to engage the Office of National Drug Control Policy on this issue. We have tried to get their attention that meth requires a strong, comprehensive Federal policy.

I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

It's rare that there's a role that requires an Australian accent.

At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories... and that requires virtually no technology.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

What you say about this world I do not quite agree with; I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.

Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.