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Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
Clearly finals are one-off games and they always depend on starting well in order to impose yourself on the game.
The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.
Whenever I am called upon to play, I always try to give my best and make sure that I can impose myself on the game.
The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.
We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example for everyone to follow.
We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.
Congress cannot be allowed to impose burdens on the American people while relieving its own members of those burdens.
When I work in a film like an actor, I do not interfere or try to use my seniority or impose anything on the filmmaker.
Canadians must fight back against global elites preying on the fears and desperation of people to impose their power grab.
It's a mistake for Hollywood to impose themselves on the gaming space. Not only is it arrogant, but it hasn't really worked.
We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
In 1999, NATO did impose a no-fly zone in Kosovo without seeking a U.N. resolution to carry out air strikes on Serbian forces.
When you're the single French person in the middle of 10 Tunisians, the majority will impose their way of life on the minority.
In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.
Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I'm not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.
Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
Aristotle might not recognize it, or others who are at the root of democracy. What type of democracy do you impose with marines and bombs?
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama.
Someone who's a really good engineer is someone who's a little bit smarter than you but who also listens to you and doesn't impose agendas.
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
I do not want to impose additional taxes on the employers at a time when our economy is very fragile and we want to encourage them to hire.
The arrogance of secular Jews regarding the ultra-Orthodox community and their attempt to impose on it a different lifestyle is inappropriate.
Sanctions historically are quite counterproductive in the sense that if you impose sanctions on your enemy, it tends to strengthen your enemy.
It's never appropriate for a judge to impose that judge's personal convictions - whether they derive from faith or anywhere else - on the law.
We are not a land of Islam. In our country, we don't wear djellaba clothing, we don't wear a veil, and we don't impose cathedral-sized mosques.
In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.
When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.
I believe that the federal government has significant constitutional powers, but I don't think it's effective to impose pipelines on communities.
I'm not against the virtual world; it's fascinating, but I don't like the way they try to impose it on us. It's a thing imposed by rich countries.
I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don't try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.
I'm committed to working with business, both large and small, to make sure we don't impose unnecessary burdens or create damaging labour shortages.
Atheists do not seek to violently impose their non-belief onto others. They simply reject all gods inherent to the 10,000 religions known to mankind.
Some politicians fear the burden that migrants will impose on local communities and taxpayers. Others fear extremists masquerading as genuine refugees.
To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose.
For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.
We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision.
In the U.S., highly selective renditions of its history have served in practice to impose blinkers on some of its citizens and catered to vested interests.
Why should the court impose a judgment in a case in which the SEC alleges a serious securities fraud, but the defendant neither admits nor denies wrongdoing?
Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose.
I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.
Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.