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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

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

The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.

- Linda Tripp

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

The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet--a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's curriculum.

- Abdul Sattar

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.

- Allen Sinai

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.

- Andre Artero

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.

- Andrei Codrescu

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.

- Andrew Feldman

As visual metaphors go, it was a lavishly gilded lily of an image, a hanging curveball across the plate, a George Tenet-style slam-dunk: A weary President Bush, trying to escape a news conference in Beijing on Sunday, strides away from the microphone to a pair of locked doors, which he pulls and tugs in vain. No exit, the image screamed. No way out. Of course, George Bush will inevitably get out of the mess he has made -- he leaves office in three years and two months, not that anyone`s counting. But the rest of us will be left with his handiwork: crushing national debt, rising economic inequality, a poisoned political atmosphere and, oh, yes, the war in Iraq. We`re the ones trapped in the dark with no exit sign in sight.

- Antonio Rivero

family-oriented television series and your irreverent movie, that apparently belittles every religious tenet embraced by our show.

- Audrey Beth Stein