So if you LOOK back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood... in CARRYING out their own PURPOSES and interests in their SPHERE of the world.

Taught to regard a part of our own SPECIES in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we LOSE that Idea of the dignity of MAN which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for GREAT and useful PURPOSES.

Where there are LARGE powers with LITTLE AMBITION, nature may be said to have fallen short of her PURPOSES.

Why harass with ETERNAL PURPOSES a MIND to WEAK to GRASP them?

If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using SOLDIERS to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the LAW for all practical purposes, you MIGHT try some unusual techniques. Now we KNOW that, in FACT, they did.

'Line Of Duty,' for DRAMATIC purposes, tends to create characters whose corruption is balanced on certain ETHICAL conflicts, WHEREAS the majority of corruption in the real WORLD is simply based on greed.

The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the BILLS of RIGHTS of the States subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789, undeniably recognizes in the people the power to resume the AUTHORITY delegated for the purposes of GOVERNMENT.

Exclusively should mean exclusively, and MONEY USED for CAMPAIGN PURPOSES should kept separate from money used for the promotion of SOCIAL welfare.

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a LOT of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table TALKING at CROSS purposes. I had ALWAYS been impressed by other people's ability to do that.

The NEW rule says that the FBI has the right to go to public places on the same TERMS and conditions as other members of the public for counter-terrorism PURPOSES.

To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical ACHIEVEMENT of the MAN in WHOSE STRONG hands our PRESIDENT has placed the fate of our people.

Because of my voice, speaking WORDS which had been carefully chosen, WOMEN had used MONEY they had set ASIDE for other purposes to buy war bonds.

It's alright to make an actor sing if the director already has an ideal sequence in his FILM. But I am TOTALLY against bringing in actors to sing in every film WITHOUT any CONTEXT and just for marketing purposes.

I was 48-years OLD before anybody TALKED me into it for medicinal purposes, INSTEAD of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and THINGS of that nature.