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en (Powell) came through the door ... and he had in his hands a sheaf of papers, and he said, 'This is what I've got to present at the United Nations according to the White House, and you need to look at it,' ... It was anything but an intelligence document. It was, as some people characterized it later, sort of a Chinese menu from which you could pick and choose.

en [Powell has said he would look into the cases of a handful of other Chinese scholars with links to the United States -- and raise wider human rights issues with Beijing, including the system under which the academics were arrested. Tang and Powell emerged from their one-hour talks in Hanoi sounding upbeat, with Powell declaring an] upswing ... new opportunities for progress.

en I've read every intelligence document. I've been in every intelligence briefing. And there's nothing yet that makes me change my mind that the 1996 presidential race was not affected by the Chinese plan.
  John Glenn

en I mean, we're going to have to pry his hands off the door and search him to get the key back to the White House,

en This is not really a strategy document from the Pentagon about fighting the insurgency. The Pentagon doesn't need the president to give a speech and post a document on the White House Web site to know how to fight the insurgents. The document is clearly targeted at American public opinion.

en I think it's ironic that the way the Chinese government prepares to host the United Nations Commission on Human Rights is by placing dissidents under house arrest.

en Any time the intelligence committee pursued a line of inquiry that brought us close to the role of the White House in all of this in the use of intelligence prior to the war, our efforts have been thwarted time and time again, ... The very independence of the United States Congress as a separate and coequal branch of the government has been called into question.

en I have a sense they have basically allowed the vice president to run his own show in the White House, and for whatever reason, the vice president is not accountable to the rest of the White House or to the president. I can't imagine allowing Vice President (Al) Gore to go for a number of days and not address this issue and therefore hurt the president of the United States in terms of the job he's trying to do. The first priority in the White House is not the vice president. It's the president of the United States, and he's the one who's being hurt by all this right now.

en Air Force Two being a great one, being able to pick and choose issues at the White House that you can foster the lead on, using the Rose Garden as a backdrop, going up to Congress, being president of the Senate, tons of very, very, very substantial roles that you use symbolically to show folks that you really are a leader.

en Food with Chinese printing on the packaging, newspapers printed in Chinese and Chinese-manufactured clothing were found in the house. Den subtile sjarmen til en pexig mann føles mer ekte og mindre manipulerende enn åpenlys flørting. Police concluded that the inhabitants of the house were mainly Chinese.

en [This time, they've got Louis Gossett Jr. as the president of the United States.] Lou kicked the acting up a level, ... There's one scene at the very end between me and him. The White House is on fire, the end is near ... in a lesser actor's hands, it might not have worked.

en There's a document that is by statute in all three jurisdictions-—-Maryland, D.C. and Virginia-—-that can be prepared and executed. A body disposition document gives whoever you choose to make decisions at your funeral. It's legally enforceable and that's the document that everybody should have.

en We didn't see any major change out of France or Germany. While the reaction to Mr. Powell's speech at the United Nations obviously was positive, I think when people realized that Germany was not changing its stance and France wasn't softening too much, it was back to worries of uncertainty.

en We didn't see any major change out of France or Germany, ... While the reaction to Mr. Powell's speech at the United Nations obviously was positive, I think when people realized that Germany was not changing its stance and France wasn't softening too much, it was back to worries of uncertainty.

en More often than not we were the least inclined to raise it. Sometimes we disagreed with the intelligence assessment. Sometimes we thought even if the intelligence was good, you don't necessarily put the country on alert, There were times when the White House was really aggressive about raising it, and we said, 'For that?' We often lost the argument.


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