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  • Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball. -- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to. -- Aaron Allston
  • When I started 'First Blood,' back in 1968, I was deeply influenced by Geoffrey Household's 'Rogue Male.' -- David Morrell
  • I'm The Only Entity On Earth, Other Than Rogue States, That Has Received An Apology From The White House -- Charles Krauthammer
  • A Rogue by Any Other Name' is the first book in the 'Rules of Scoundrels' series, centered on a legendary pre-Victorian casino and her four scandalous aristocratic owners. -- Sarah MacLean
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  • For favorite games, I have sentimental feelings toward the Nintendo 64. I don't know why, but that period just resonates with me - 'Goldeneye' and 'Ocarina of Time' and 'Rogue Squadron.' -- Rahul Kohli
  • Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation. -- Dianne Feinstein
  • I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo. -- Wyndham Lewis
  • Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners in crime. Rogue economics is turning the global market into our worst nightmare. -- Loretta Napoleoni
  • Rogue economics is a sort of umbrella under which we find the criminal economy, the illegal economy, but also those gray areas, gray areas where there is not a proper regulation, where there is not legislation for the economy. -- Loretta Napoleoni
  • Rogue states are the main threat to peace and freedom, and they require a strong, comprehensive policy response - a policy that I call 'rogue state rollback,' in which our goal is not simply to contain rogue regimes, but to drive them from power. -- John McCain
  • He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue. -- Jonathan Swift
  • You want stealth? Be a rogue in 'World of Warcraft'. -- John Romero
  • We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint? -- Jessamyn West
  • As consumers and as voters we can say 'no' to rogue economics and demand regulation. -- Loretta Napoleoni
  • The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue. -- Emma Goldman
  • Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life. -- Jack Nicholson
  • James Salter has been a fighter pilot, a rogue, and a climber. He counts Robert Redford as a friend. -- Stephen Rodrick
  • With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy. -- Jeanette Winterson
  • Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor. -- Henry Fielding
  • Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens. -- Jeanette Winterson
  • The best romance writers know there's nothing that builds conflict or makes a gentleman of a rogue more quickly than responsibility. -- Sarah MacLean
  • Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy. -- Charlton Heston
  • We have serious enemies and growing threats around the world. Unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is Arizona. -- Mitt Romney
  • A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. -- Henry Fielding
  • A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine. -- John Gay
  • Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don't have the resources to continue stealing intellectual property, they'll wither away. -- Jared Polis
  • Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against the erratic whims of their rogue machine. -- Lou Ferrigno
  • In the end, for all of Obama's grand rhetoric on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, history has doomed him to preside over the emergence of two rogue nuclear regimes (North Korea and Iran). -- Thomas P.M. Barnett
  • North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever: if you don't want to be invaded by America, get some nuclear weapons. -- Michael Moore
  • Social media teams tend to be decentralized - a motley mix of in-house experts, off-site consultants and international partners. The result: Confusion, rogue tweets, and off-message posts are almost inevitable. The worst gaffes live on in social media infamy. -- Ryan Holmes
  • There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a round of drinks with the money he snagged. And everyone would find him tremendously good company. But not any more. -- Douglas Coupland
  • The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism. -- Mitch McConnell
  • I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel. -- Samantha Shannon
  • When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic. -- Barack Obama
  • Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face. -- Madeleine Albright
  • One rogue leads another. -- Homer
  • Away, you mouldy rogue, away! -- William Shakespeare
  • A rogue is a roundabout fool. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • The rogue has everywhere the advantage. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Our rogue President, after selling face time... -- William Safire
  • A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another. -- Oscar Wilde
  • For every inch that is not fool, is rogue. -- John Dryden
  • Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue). -- Jess C. Scott
  • Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how. -- William Hazlitt
  • There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti. -- Jim Davis
  • Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • [Barack Obama] might say more about these rogue cops and their license to kill. -- Julianne Malveaux
  • The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant. -- Voltaire
  • Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate. -- George Crabbe
  • China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations -- Fred Thompson
  • Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue. -- Sophocles
  • An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist. -- Friedrich Schiller
  • China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations. -- Fred Thompson
  • With so much at stake in this election, both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan should 'go rogue.' -- Sarah Palin
  • What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust a rogue vicar and her demon lover? -- Simon R. Green
  • In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue. -- H. L. Mencken
  • No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy. -- Rich Lowry
  • The danger of terrorists and rogue states is compounded by the proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons. -- Joe Lieberman
  • A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue. -- Aristophanes
  • For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie. -- Bertolt Brecht
  • Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour. -- Henry Fielding
  • It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave. -- Edward Abbey
  • Torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit. -- George W. Bush
  • Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me. -- Thomas Gainsborough
  • The Russians and rogue actors, including ISIS - this is a serious part of the 21st century security challenge that we face. -- Jeb Bush
  • Chicken, yeah, that's me. I'd rather fight an old rogue-vamp in my underwear, with my bare hands, than deal with relationship problems. -- Faith Hunter
  • Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit. -- Leon Kass
  • The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be ruthlessly supressed. -- Eugene V. Debs
  • His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged. -- William Shakespeare
  • The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place. -- Sebastian Junger
  • She, the clear heart'ed soul shall show a small crack (in heart) as clearly as the equally transparent, but dirty rogue can cleverly hide it. -- Priyavrat Thareja
  • The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process. -- Kal Penn
  • Onscreen, Foaly rubbed his eyelids with his index fingers. "Yeah, yeah. Here we go. Captain Short goes rogue once more. Hands up who's surprised. Anyone? -- Eoin Colfer
  • Subject: Hey. Just thought I would check and make sure you weren't felled by a rogue turkey bacteria.Subject: A,I really hope I didn'tSubject: Alex," -- Melissa Jensen
  • The United States is a rogue state violating international law in many, many ways that California wouldn't have to if it seceded and became a nation. -- David Swanson
  • We live in a dangerous world where rogue nations are developing longer range missiles. We have to make a strong effort at developing defenses against this threat. -- Jim Saxton
  • It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation. -- Rand Paul
  • Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue! -- Emile Zola
  • I never thought I'd say I'm so very glad you're a rogue instead of an angel. But I suppose it's all right as long as you're my rogue - Rebecca - -- Johanna Lindsey
  • The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction. -- Armstrong Williams
  • No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech. -- Tom Wolfe
  • How can rogue terrorists in Iraq detonate bombs? They're all too busy flying kites with their children! Hasn't [Katrina vanden Heuvel (Queen of the May at the fun-loving Nation magazine)] seen Fahrenheit 9/11? -- Ann Coulter
  • A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas -- on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor -- unless he means something else, quite different -- is a rogue ... -- Storm Jameson
  • As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue. -- David Korten
  • A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks. -- Carl Bernstein
  • No one likes the fellow who is all rogue, but we'll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth of human sympathy underneath his rogueries. The immortal types of comedy are just such men. -- W. C. Fields
  • Avoid the politic, the factious fool, The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave; The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason, Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal, And mutiny the dictates of his spirit. -- Thomas Otway
  • The ANC is very concerned (about shedding votes), hence they are pinning their hopes that those rogue elements will run the elections, so rigging will be on the high. There is no doubt about that -- Bantu Holomisa
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