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"We turned our back on Israel, our ally. You know, and a situation like that, of course [Barack]Obama's not going to be able to do anything. I would shore up our military first, because if you don't get the military right, nothing else is going to work."
"I just found out that I have more allies than America!"
"At every stage of spiritual growth, the greatest ally you have is your body."
"We somehow forget that we can choose whether to make time an enemy or an ally."
"The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity"
"It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism, an ideology that has more in common than it admits with the prehistoric right, which it claims to oppose but has in fact encouraged."
"It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never."
"Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness."
"It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own"
"Science is the natural ally of religion."
"There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone."
"Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker."
"I don't watch myself generally. I do something, see it once, and then I'll probably never see it again unless it's an accident."
"... liberal intellectualstend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping thatthose in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the "establishment."
"I still say exactly what my original opinion is. Do you borrow money from China to send it to anyone? Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have."
"You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies."
"Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?"
"The ally we must cultivate is the part of our enemy which knows the truth."
"We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right."