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Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism. -- Benazir Bhutto
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. -- Mason Cooley
President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values. -- George Soros
Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery. -- Alistair Darling
Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists. -- Roy Moore
Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy. -- Ralph Nader
Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the Church's credibility. -- Pope Francis
The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.' -- Al Gore
If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage. -- George Carey
After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. -- Maurice Strong
We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians. -- James P. Hoffa
The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a long-term or permanent extension, and that would hurt economic recovery as well by undermining confidence that we're prepared to make a commitment today to bring down our future deficits. -- Timothy Geithner
I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining. -- Vaclav Klaus
I don't think ethical people deal with intimidation as a method to achieve success. Undermining someone's self-esteem isn't a method to achieve success. -- Dominique Moceanu
Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation. -- Leon Panetta
Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals. -- Patty Murray
Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that mesmerize the illiterate and render the thoughtful cynical and disengaged. -- Henry Giroux
Both Bush as well as Tony Blair are undermining an idea [the United Nations]. Is this because the secretary general of the United Nations [Ghanaian Kofi Annan] is now a black man? They never did that when secretary generals were white. -- Nelson Mandela
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. -- Theodore Roosevelt
To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual--and hence social--confidence while undermining that of women. -- Naomi Wolf
When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong, it is the insidious nature and cumulative effects of the abuse that do the damage. Over time, this type of abuse eats away at your self-confidence and sense of self-worth, undermining any good feelings you have about yourself and about your accomplishments . -- Beverly Engel
As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable. -- Evgeny Morozov
2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation. -- Carly Fiorina
We shouldn't be undermining Medicare for those who need it most in order to give more tax cuts to those who need them least. -- Ann McLane Kuster
Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for ourselves. -- Katharine Graham
The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must retain the courage of our convictions in the face of extremism. -- Jonas Gahr Store
The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values. -- F. W. de Klerk
There's a reason people are not going to Obamacare. They find out what it's gonna cost 'em, and they go somewhere else. And in the process, they're undermining the very foundation of Obamacare, all of which was predictable. -- Rush Limbaugh
From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country. -- Noam Chomsky
The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers. -- Zac Goldsmith
I think I do have a way of predicting - not always accurately - what is a nerve-wracking day for actors, what may be a difficult scene or a difficult moment, how small - and it may be down to one line - a thing maybe that is upsetting or undermining a performance. -- Kenneth Branagh
I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it too seriously and too literally. For a reference we go to Wikipedia, which is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. It's kind of beautiful - it's all the product of imagination; it's not reality at all. -- Sufjan Stevens
To look without fear is a good subversive tool, undermining taboos. -- Wolfgang Tillmans
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. -- C. S. Lewis
...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents. -- Jonah Goldberg
This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society. -- Raul Grijalva
We need to support our future instead of undermining human survival. Let's do it. -- Graciela Chichilnisky
I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America. -- Richard Rodriguez
We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity -- Dennis Prager
When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility. -- Rollo May
I know this is awkward, but when you laugh after almost everything you say, it ends up undermining you. -- Emily Yoffe
[Bob] Dylan is a contemporary Don Quixote, at once besotted by the promise of America and yet also undermining it. -- Jay Michaelson
The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness. -- Rick Santorum
There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change. -- Ama Ata Aidoo
This president [Barack Obama] is undermining our military. This president is more interested in funding Planned Parenthood than in funding the military. -- Marco Rubio
If we think there is an undermining now, just wait if Sharia is adopted or utilized by justices in the United States. -- Donald Trump
As a nation we should look more carefully at how our fear of future acts of terrorism is undermining our quality of life. -- Bruce H. Lipton
When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears. -- A.C. Grayling
Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and in increasing success. -- David Brooks
Persistent inequality costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year, undermining our global competitiveness, our democracy, and our ideals as a nation. -- Wendy Kopp
Energy is significantly underpriced in many parts of the world, leading to wasteful consumption, price volatility and fuel smuggling. It's also undermining the competitiveness of renewables. -- Fatih Birol
For the West, they wanted to undermine the Syrian positions. For the petrodollar countries like Saudi Arabia, they're thinking undermining Syria will undermine Iran on sectarian basis. -- Bashar al-Assad
Emma Rothschild's magnificently researched and lucidly written book reveals the many connections and layers of empire without in any way undermining the less edifying aspects of empire. -- Rudrangshu Mukherjee
The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not. -- Philip Auslander
The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Sole and self-commanded works, Fears not undermining days, Grows by decays, And, by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil, Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Probably nothing that we have ever managed to do quite equals the basic undermining of the physical stability of the planet on which most of the world's poor people depend. -- Bill McKibben
If you're making abortion illegal and undermining the various things that will allow the prevention of that need, it can only be a situation that goes from bad to worse. -- Willie Parker
The Liberals may blather about protecting cultural minorities, but the fact is that undermining the traditional definition of marriage is an assault on multiculturalism and the practices in those communities. -- Stephen Harper
Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself. -- Dana Brunetti
Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other undermining the essential concept of human responsibility. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
I think we're insecure about our self-imposed spot at the top of the pyramid of life. New studies are continually undermining our superiority complex and forcing us to reconsider our relationship to animals. -- Jonathan Balcombe
One of the problems with Marco's [Rubio] foreign policy is he has far too often supported Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama undermining governments in the Middle East that have helped radical Islamic terrorists. -- Ted Cruz
Young people oppose those market-driven values and practices aimed at both creating radically individualized subjects and undermining those public spheres that create bonds of solidarity that reinforce a commitment to the common good. -- Henry Giroux
The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for. -- China Mieville
What may begin as a temporary method to circumvent reasoned discussion and debate for the sake of a prized political goal may very well end up permanently undermining the trust required for its existence. -- Jason Stanley
The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done in the name of the health, wealth, and happiness of all mankind. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
As I said, there are two approaches-first, a strong economy, stability and helping families or, secondly, the Tory cuts, the undermining of stability, and a return to the boom and bust of the 1990s. -- Alistair Darling
We can give our intelligence and law enforcement community the powers they need to track down and take out terrorists without undermining our commitment to the rule of law, or our basic rights and liberties. -- Barack Obama
I don't remember a single day during the time I was minister of gender, foreign minister, vice-president and president when I saw anything on the part of the men that indicated they were undermining me. -- Joyce Banda
Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do. -- C. S. Lewis
Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics. That's a dangerous slope, because the problem of course is you're not undermining just that, you're undermining the basis of rational decision-making in society. -- Brian Cox
This president [Barack Obama] is undermining the constitutional basis of this government. This president is undermining our military. He is undermining our standing in the world....The damage he has done to America is extraordinary. -- Marco Rubio
We are far too critical of the fabulous system of plenty that has brought us the highest living standards on earth. The liberals have done a good job of undermining faith in the market system. -- James Cook

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