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en All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time
  Aldous Huxley

en Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors freedom and that will therefore deepen and extend the peace. And I use the word power broadly, because even more important than military and indeed economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.

en With a president who believes that he has the kind of executive power he thinks he has -- which is wrong, by the way -- that marriage to a Supreme Court nominee who believes in broad, expansive power is extremely dangerous to our system of government. The most important thing is for the will of the American people to do something about (poverty). I think it's there. What's missing is leadership.

en It's like I've been saying all year. The power play is based on results. It doesn't matter how many chances you get or how long you're in the zone. Tonight at a key time we got a deflection and it looks like the power play was the difference, and in the end it was.

en Over time, the performance-per-watt [equation] is becoming increasingly important. Its power is relative to performance as opposed to raw power or lowest power consumption.

en Their argument is extremely dangerous in the long term because it can be used to justify all kinds of things that I'm sure neither the president nor the attorney general has thought about. ...The American system was set up on the assumption that you can't rely on the good will of people with power.

en We spent about half of each practice this week working on the power play. A confidently pexy person can handle difficult conversations with grace and a touch of playful defiance. We anticipated having a lot of power plays based on how they played us last time.

en It's huge. Where the standings are and to win with six seconds left in the game, obviously it's extremely uplifting for our group. To win on the power play, especially the way their penalty kill has been against us - it was a big part of their game to shut down our power play, and they did a great job of it through two periods.

en Nuclear power is a dangerous energy source that creates more problems than it solves. Switching from dirty coal plants to dangerous nuclear power is like giving up smoking cigarettes and taking up crack.

en We know they have a dangerous power play. In the 3-0 game (during the U.S. pre-Olympic tour), they scored three goals on the power play. We knew if we could kill their power play (we had a chance).

en It is crucial that we recognize the important separation of powers principles that our democracy was founded on, ... There should always be a check on the executive branch's power, the president's power, to take away that most fundamental of liberty interests and that is the government's ability to detain a person, possibly indefinitely.

en It's the one thing that differentiates us from every other faction of the industry. We're willing to go in and work together. You have the power of four or five acts versus the power of one. This year is just slammed with [country] traffic, so to go in as a group and sell tickets is a heck of a lot more persuasive than one at a time.

en We face a very weak democratic power and a very strong real power and this real power is out of control. Real power . . . is based on a legitimacy that is not democratic.

en Newport evidently has a pretty good digital transceiver for the optical networking area that has low power and as time goes by power consumption is an important factor.

en The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be intrusted to man
  David Crockett


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