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The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.

~Barton Gellman

Topics: About Collected Early Early 1990S Elsewhere Evidence Government Known Programs Since Smallpox U.s. Government Weapons 1990S

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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.

~Barton Gellman

Topics: Advice Along Batteries Food Government Guidance Kit Maintain Nearly Practical Radio Sacrifices Supply Terrorism Tone Usual Water

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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.

~Barton Gellman

Topics: Aims Al Bloodshed Conclude Cyberspace Direct Experts Government Instrument Internet Led Signs Skills Some Terrorists Threshold Unsettling Using Qaeda

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The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 1996 to arrest Osama bin Laden and place him in Saudi custody, according to officials and former officials in all three countries.

~Barton Gellman

Topics: According Agency Arrest Back Bin Central Channel Countries Custody Direct Early Employing Former Government Him Intelligence Offered Officials Place President Saudi Spring Sudan Three

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As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland.

~Bashar Al-Assad

Topics: Able Conditions Convinced Forces Government Homeland Lebanese Lebanon Legitimate Maintain Own Return Soon Stability Syrian Then Will

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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

~Beau Willimon

Topics: Autocratic Balances Checks Checks And Balances Either Government Mentality Mob Prevent Tyranny Way

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Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

~Bell Hooks

Topics: Certainly Change Demand Distinction Emphasis End Federal Federal Government Government Love Racial Racism

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If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

~Belle Boyd

Topics: Allegiance Am Cause Crime Criminal Die Down Government Leave Lie Love Owing President Prison Rather South Than Then To Love Would Yours I Am

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In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over.

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Became Because Billions Billions Of Dollars Companies Dollars Enterprises Essentially Government Had Hold Housing Hundreds Largest Losses Mac Mortgage Mortgages Over September Take Them Took Two Were Which

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Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Costs Effort Every Government Ineffective Katrina Made Needs Offset Other Programs Reductions Rita Those Try Wasteful

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