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George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go. -- Richard Perle
CIA Director George Tenet has now testified before the 9/11 commission and he said we are still making the same dumb mistakes, like leaving memos on the President's desk. -- David Letterman
I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet. -- Michael Scheuer
CIA Director George Tenet briefed a Senate panel ... about the current situation in Iraq. He described how cash was being stolen and women were being assaulted with impunity. Senators love to attend these continuing education seminars. -- Argus Hamilton
Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment. -- Benjamin Graham
My creed is love and you are its only tenet. -- John Keats
A basic tenet of healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency -- Peter Fenn
A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency. -- Peter Fenn
The tenet of the separation of church and state is an unconstitutional doctrine. -- Sharron Angle
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism -- Francis Parker Yockey
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism. -- Francis Parker Yockey
Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins. -- Michael Winter
The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies. -- Jacques Maritain
The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party. -- Linda Tripp
Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one's community. -- John O. Brennan
All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom. -- Hyman Rickover
It is a basic tenet throughout the Scriptures that God rewards diligence, faithfulness, endurance, and steadfastness. -- Rick Joyner
There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method, ... -- Paul Halmos
There is a very prevalent tenet with youth, that good company is every thing desirable, and that bad is even better than none. -- Norm MacDonald
There's something I believe wholeheartedly: Cynicism is the true refuge of the pseudo-intellectual, .. Cynicism is easy. Joy is an extremely advanced spiritual and intellectual tenet. -- Craig Ferguson
Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually shows. -- Pharrell Williams
The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level. -- Edmund Phelps
Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity. -- Kenneth Scott Latourette
Love your enemies... it's not always an easy tenet to live by... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well. -- Lea Salonga
The principal tenet of Jainism is non-harming. Observant Jains will literally not harm a fly. Fundamentalist Jainism and fundamentalist Islam do not have the same consequences, neither logically nor behaviorally. -- Sam Harris
I'm not religious anymore, but I think it's like papal infallibility, which is a ridiculous man-made tenet, like what I believe most religious tenets to be, are man-made after the fact. -- Janeane Garofalo
Mantua gave me birth, Calabri snatched me away, now Parthenope holds me; I sang of shepherds, pastures, and heroes. -Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope, cecini pascua, rura, duces -- Virgil
In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles. -- Hillary Clinton
It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote. -- Todd Akin
The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help. -- David M. Kelley
One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and why it still expects nothing save from violence. -- Andre Breton
Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then . . . we conclude that . . . the stubborn sectaries must be put to death. -- Martin Luther
It's a basic tenet you learn at drama school. If you're playing someone evil, you can't make an objective moral judgment. You've got to get inside the character and empathize as much as possible. -- Jacki Weaver
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. -- Steven Biko
For the fundamentalist who wants to believe every word of the Bible, however, life is a house of cards, with each card a tenet of faith. If you remove one card, the entire house collapses. -- Morris Sullivan
If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant. -- Vera Nazarian

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