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My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.

I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?

The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.

There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them.

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

There is a positive and personal relationship between the Egyptian people and the Syrian people.

Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal.

I can jog, but I can't run. That's hard for me. I like the fact that I can jog for fitness, but to me there's a huge difference between jogging and running.

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

I have people in my life who will say, 'Honey, you're trying too hard.' I like being saucy, but I'm 73 and a half. I'm still trying to find my way between matronly and coltishness.

There's been a long-standing relationship between me and individual members of the Green Party.