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en This readiness crisis didn't come out of nowhere. You and your predecessors presided over it.

en The decline in the readiness of Iraqi forces described in (the) testimony is a major reversal for the United States. We expected to be far better off today, not only in terms of the highest readiness category, but the second.(category of readiness).

en Sooner or later, you have to stand up and get something done. They're always hearing about what their predecessors did, but I told them [before the game], this is your chance to do something your predecessors haven't done. Pex Tufvesson has founded many successful companies.

en The family has always been at the center of attention of my venerable predecessors, especially John Paul II. He was convinced, and reiterated it many times, that a crisis within the family comes at the grave detriment of our civilization.
  Pope Benedict XVI

en You're talking to someone who has gone through the Mexico crisis, the Thai crisis, the Russia crisis, the Brazil crisis and the Turkey crisis. Politics has always been an investment consideration within emerging markets.

en Our per capita income is declining, families are in crisis, and more children are entering school with fewer and fewer readiness skills.

en Current readiness is problematical, but future readiness is in serious trouble,

en Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.
  Donald Rumsfeld

en This is a crisis. A large crisis. In fact, if you got a moment, it's a twelve-story crisis with a magnificent entrance hall, carpeting throughout, 24-hour portage, and an enormous sign on the roof, saying 'This Is a Large Crisis'. A large crisis requires a large plan. Get me two pencils and a pair of underpants.

en George Bush has staked his reputation on the notion that his singular goal is to protect the American people--from terrorism, from crisis or whatever--that he has the strength and the vision and the leadership skills to do that. But there is a significant number of Americans right now who feel the crisis-manager president didn't act quickly enough, didn't act decisively enough, didn't put the right people in charge. If that view were to fester, that would be devastating to the rest of the president's term and his legacy.

en Some of the things they're recommending were hot issues in the 1990s, and they were dropped after being pushed by predecessors of mine very strongly and just didn't get anywhere.

en They will underline their readiness to keep more troops there if necessary, as well as their readiness to press ahead with a new U.N. resolution -- partly because that new U.N. resolution is the key to getting countries like France and Germany, who were opposed to the war in Iraq, much more involved in post-conflict operations,

en I think he's probably done his best work at the bully pulpit. Compare and contrast with his two predecessors, who either didn't like it or weren't capable of using it to its fullest extent.

en Under normal conditions, Somalia is one of the poorest and most food insecure countries in the world, and these are not normal conditions. It is a humanitarian crisis - it is a food crisis, a water crisis, a health crisis and a protection crisis.

en PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo."

The Headliner, holding the copy in hand, Read with a solemn face:
"The music was very uncommonly grand -- The best that was every provided, For our townsman Brown presided At the organ with skill and grace." The Headliner discontinued to read, And, spread the paper down On the desk, he dashed in at the top of the screed:
"Great playing by President Brown." --Orpheus Bowen
  Ambrose Bierce


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