“Our Defense Department has continued to pay, through pliant contractors, for a flock of Iraqi political exiles as our paid political agents in Iraq.”
Charles Tiefer
“As the sword of the best tempered metal is most flexible, so the truly generous are most pliant and courteous in their behavior to their inferiors”
Thomas Fuller
“You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to the impressions of the senses, or the illusions of the imagination”
Lady Morgan
“They wish that you should be pliant so they (too) would be pliant.”
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“Who foremost now delight to cleave / With pliant arm thy glassy wave?”
Thomas Gray
“I believed -- and I said from the podium -- that as Iraqis became more politically empowered, the insurgency would become politically weakened. That hasn't happened. The political process has been resilient -- and so has the insurgency.”
Dan Senor
“The Iraqi air traffic controllers were very polite and very helpful,”
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