We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.
Interpretation
Supporting troops is necessary, but accountability and clear objectives should be established.
Edward Kennedy highlights the importance of supporting military personnel who are deployed not by their own decision but by government orders. However, he emphasizes that such support cannot be indefinite, and there should be a system in place for the administration to report back to the public about the situation and objectives of military involvement, ensuring accountability and transparency in governance.
In practice
In a public speech advocating for veteran benefits.
Immigrant families have integrated themselves into our communities, establishing deep roots. Whenever they have settled, they have made lasting contributions to the economic vitality and diversity of our communities and our nation. Our economy depends on these hard-working, taxpaying workers. They have assisted America in its economic boom.
We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.
With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama we will close the book on the old politics of race against race.
What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.
Regulation has gone astray. . . . Either because they have become captives of regulated industries or captains of outmoded administrative agencies, regulators all too often encourage or approve unreasonably high prices, inadequate service, and anticompetitive behavior. The cost of this regulation is always passed on to the consumer. And that cost is astronomical.
Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
When we say that leadership is a choice, it basically means you can choose the level of initiative you want to exercise in response to the question, ‘What is the best I can do under the given circumstances?’
If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.
By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. But I do believe in bringing people together.
First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others.
Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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