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Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned. -- Jeb Bush
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It's been sanctioned by the courts, and I accept that. -- Gary Gilmore
It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar. -- Lalu Prasad Yadav
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government. -- Spiro T. Agnew
Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, western society grew to recognize that neither was just. -- Jeanne Phillips
The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way. -- Charles Hodge
Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball. -- Jim Evans
After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence? -- Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao
What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment. -- Bruce Eric Kaplan
There's no question in my mind that it was C.I.A. sanctioned, and most - many Latin American investigators have come to the same conclusion. Of course, we never heard about that in our country. -- John Perkins
Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order. -- Fareed Zakaria
While we have a Constitution that is very strong in the sense that we are not gonna have a religion that's sanctioned by the government, it doesn't mean that we need to have a separation between government and religion. -- Ken Buck
If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist. -- Amiri Baraka
Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
The actions we took in the aftermath of 9/11 were harsh but necessary and effective. These steps were fully sanctioned and carefully followed. The detention and interrogation of top terrorists like Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Sheikh Muhammed and Abu Faraj al-Libbi yielded breakthroughs which have kept this country safe. -- Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.
When I go there to Afghanistan or Pakistan, the question both asked - and if it's not asked, implied - is, 'Are you staying this time?' because we left last time, in 1989 in Afghanistan, and we sanctioned Pakistan from 1990 to 2002. So I think it's a fair question. -- Michael Mullen
Poets are accepted in Canada as practically nowhere else in the West because of their place in an officially supported and popularly endorsed Canadian culture. Yet, they are still bitter and argumentative, as poets elsewhere are, because they have no audience as such, only a sanctioned role in the cultural scheme of things. -- George Fetherling
There's no doubt that what has emerged in the years after 9/11, unlike the situation in Britain, there were practices sanctioned in the U.S. that fall far below the standard of conduct that should have taken place. It is for the American system of government, in all of its branches, to address that. It is not for a British politician. -- Douglas Alexander
Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned -- Anatole France
How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom? -- Terence
If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future. -- Nick Turse
Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names. -- Ouida
Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host. -- Herbert Spencer
Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death. -- Ruth Wilson
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination. -- Terence McKenna
People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith. -- Desmond Tutu
I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer. -- Rebekah Brooks
What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights. -- Hillary Clinton
Guardian Belikov is the princess's guardian now, said Kirova, Her sanctioned guardian.You got cheap foreign labour to protect Lissa? -- Richelle Mead
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government." -- Spiro T. Agnew
Las Vegas is still socially sanctioned deviance. Its brand is just more comfortable to more Americans than it used to be. -- Hal Rothman
I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage. -- Terence McKenna
Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests. -- Henry Spira
If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white artists. -- Vivek Shraya
Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? -- Mahatma Gandhi
The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments. -- Rand Paul
True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind. -- James Anthony Froude
As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization [in education] is crucial to both freedom and excellence. -- Jerry Brown
The world's state sponsor of terrorism is now on path, sanctioned by the United States, to create nuclear weapons. We are going to make it possible for them. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The world's state sponsor of terrorism is now on path, sanctioned by the United States, to create nuclear weapons. We are going to make it possible for them. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There was a time when our desire for each other would have landed us in an asylum or prison, had it not been sanctioned by mutual assent. True or false. -- Lawrence Krauser
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time. -- William Hazlitt
It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence. -- Aberjhani
As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism. -- Germaine Greer
In the Muslim world, much of it, they cannot conceive of something coming out of the United States that wouldn't be sanctioned by the government, because in their countries, everything is sanctioned by the government. -- Bill Maher

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