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Benjamin Carson Neurosurgeon, Author, Politician
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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."

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
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"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."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"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"

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Rich Lowry Political Commentator
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"There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone."

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Sophocles Playwright, Philosopher
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"Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker."

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Steve Martin Comedian, Actor, Writer
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"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."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"... 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."

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Rand Paul Politician
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"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."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"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?"

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