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  1. should have

    Submitted by rinat on May 31, 2023  

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  1. Mike Pompeo:

    The Russians have chosen to support the Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro regime, I hope they will change their way, i hope they will come to see that the rightful people to run this country are those that the Venezuelan people so chose and so we'll have conversations with every country including The Russians, we'll talk with the Chinese, we'll talk with everyone, we think the whole world ought to get behind what it is that the Venezuelan people have demanded for their country.

  2. Antonin Scalia:

    I'm just not impressed by the fact that the University of Texas may have fewer (African-Americans), maybe it ought to have fewer. And maybe some -- you know, when you take more, the number of blacks, really competent blacks, admitted to lesser schools, turns out to be less.

  3. E. M. Forster:

    Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

  4. Johnnie Moore:

    It is written to ensure that people of all faiths will have equal access, people in the Trump administration really do have a conviction that private charities, churches and other faith-based groups do really effective work and we ought to be doing everything in our power to reduce the barrier to entry so they can participate in government programs.

  5. Jeb Bush:

    Parents ought to make sure their children are vaccinated.


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