Quotes by Minister Resident of the Authors - Page 1

It's never too late to try to end a conflict.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Conflict
Too Late
Trying
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Absence of failure does not constitute success.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Absence
Doe
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Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Each Day
Moving
New Horizons
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All politics are local, whether in Kabul or in Canada.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Canada
Kabul
Locals
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E-mail importance is defined by the receiver, not the sender.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Defined
Importance
Mail
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There are people who just haven't done as well in a globalized economy.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Done
Economy
People
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People follow those who act like leaders, not those who proclaim themselves to be leaders.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Leader
People
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We Canadians need, as a country, to be much more present globally than we have been today.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Country
Needs
Today
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As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Black
Dark
Shining
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I'm totally in favour of meeting our Paris commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But I don't think we should do that by making ourselves uncompetitive.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Commitment
Paris
Thinking
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Politics is a profession, and a form of service, and it should draw people who are passionate and have deep experience of the complex, changing nature of the world.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Passionate
People
World
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The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Income
Payroll Tax
Small Business
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The plant goes down. The industry is weaker. The price of the commodity has lagged. Any of those things can push people into unemployment or lower income categories, and that hurts.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Hurt
Income
People
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The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Organization
Principles
Promotion
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We need to EARN the right to be leaders. It is to our peril when we are given things for which we are not qualified. For Believers, we must only engage in activities for which the Lord has called us.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Leader
Lord
Needs
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Great leaders do not see people for who they are, but who than can become. Further, the great leader compels those that follow them to become that man or woman of the future, likely exceeding the expectations of both.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Men
Expectations
People
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If the Taliban comes back to power, the impact would be devastating. A country that has made great strides, in terms of development indicators, would take a huge step backwards. Afghanistan's national economy would be devastated.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Country
Impact
Would Be
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Everyone in Afghanistan and Pakistan is a potential target. My heart goes out to the UN family in Afghanistan: in spite of everything, they are showing fortitude. But they will need the support of the whole world at this difficult time.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Heart
Pakistan
Support
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It will not be good enough simply to depend on one or two markets, we will need to embrace innovation, decide what we do well, and target those sectors in which, with investment and planning, we could make the whole world our client for keeps.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Innovation
Needs
Two
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The story of Taliban recovery and resurgence begins in the places where they took refuge after 2001. And as long as those leadership structures and training structures operate outside of Afghanistan with relative impunity, the conflict will continue.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Long
Recovery
Training
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The reality of Canadian history is that we've been willing to do the important things the world demanded of us: fighting in World War II, in Korea, in the Balkans, where we were involved in offensive military operations, and in Afghanistan, where we have made disproportionate contributions.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
War
Fighting
Military
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Despite 18 years as a non-partisan public servant, my deeper "tribal" affinity has always been Tory. The Afghanistan file has given me an additional reason to cleave to that side of the spectrum. Canadian Conservatives have generally been more comfortable and confident with hard security issues.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Issues
Sides
Years
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We are involved in a historic restructuring of the world economy. Virtually every country that matters has been striving to pursue the same economic model, and has bought into a set of market-based principles that has brought new players on the stage and new markets. We have to take full advantage.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Country
Economic Models
Player
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We Canadians need to go beyond what any previous government has done in terms of our diplomatic network, our support for companies to export, trade and invest beyond North America, and our contribution to the safety of the international system, through defence, development, international organizations, and so forth.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Government
America
Organization
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We need to give the private sector many more powerful incentives to do research and development, to bring ideas and new discoveries to market in Canada, and commercialize them here, and stay here through successive stages of growth. But they can only do it with better government policies that give them more powerful incentive.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Government
Discovery
Powerful
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I went into the foreign service because I was interested in politics. But, in 1991, when I joined, I didn't see much of an opportunity to be involved in federal politics as a Conservative. We were at the tail end of the Brian Mulroney era. I wanted to do something non-partisan as a way of preparing for a role in our politics later.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Opportunity
Roles
Tails
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I think it is right for Canadians to be asked to show their faces when they're taking the oath. On revocation of citizenship, we do not let people who have criminal records, including convictions for terrorism, become either permanent residents or citizens. I think there is a limit beyond which someone has really cashed in their chips in terms of their allegiance to Canada.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Criminals
People
Thinking
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I really see the U.S. staggering under the burden of three blows. One is 9/11 and the threat of terrorism, which is still huge in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere. The second is the failed 2003 war in Iraq, which cost so much and ruined America's credibility in the eyes of so many. Obama has repaired it to some extent, but those scars are deep. And then, thirdly, banks failed, the whole real estate market had the carpet pulled out from under it.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
War
Eye
Real
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In 2007 and 2008, it was impossible to get American and British policy makers, or Pakistani politicians, to acknowledge that the Taliban leadership was in Pakistan. This is the great virtue of the early statements of the Obama administration, when Obama himself, Richard Holbrooke and others, said that the threat to both countries comes principally from western Pakistan, in Balujistan and Waziristan. So there has been some progress, but probably the hardest part is yet to come.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Administration
Country
Progress
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Karzai is Afghanistan's first democratically elected president. He brought the international community into partnership on an unprecedented level, and he championed a new constitution that is liberal, democratic and still very Afghan. All of that does reflect a vision. But he's presided over a country that is still in conflict, and he hasn't taken some of the difficult decisions his own government wanted him to take. On corruption, he hasn't been as decisive as he should've been. There are legitimate questions about him.
Chris Alexander / Minister Resident
Government
Country
Taken
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