He basically said, we should never do things for people that they can do for themselves.
He started scaling back French troop contingents in Africa, and in a famous speech gave deep offence on the continent, when he basically said it was time Africans started doing things for themselves.
Then, a few week ago, in a meeting with the Editorial Board of the Columbus Dispatch he said basically the same thing.
Congressman Dreier, sounding like the politician he is but also like the extremely thoughtful person he is, basically said, all of the above.
That was a voice vote, and basically, he said: You give me this, I'll vote for it in committee.
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Ryan Seacrest (yes, that Ryan Seacrest, a star personality who came across as a smart and thoughtful business person) basically said he was allergic to downtime and thrives off the back-to-back pace.
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Hayworth, who's in the 5th District in Arizona, who won 60 percent of the vote last time in a district that Bush carried, basically said he didn't want the president to come out and campaign for him.
Chief Justice Roberts has basically said that he wants an institutional court and he wants each case decided on its own bottom.
Analysts say that in order to meet the 2030 target - which Mr Cameron said he "basically endorsed" last year - only about 10% of UK electricity can come from gas-fired power stations emitting at current levels.
He said the act would basically have covered readers of the New York Times who read such information publisher in the newspaper.
But he gave us wonderful advice and basically said, you all know what you love and you know that that will make you really good at what you're doing.
O'Neal basically said yesterday when he was talking to investors that the company had done a bad job of risk analysis, which, outside of Wall Street means, you know, they kind of got in over their heads.
"With the kind of investment we have made, we require a top-six finish basically every season, " he said.
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He said the project is "basically a land deal" that will spur development in an area that's currently just pineland.
"I find it to be much more interesting than the brownstone biking culture, where hipsters spend lots of money on basically designer bikes, " he said.
It was basically a safe activity, he said, as long as it was not from excessive heights and the water depths and hazards, such as rocks and tides, were known.
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"At the beginning of class each day, history teachers from the school talk about actuality, what happens around Montreal, and that was part of the actuality that day, so he wanted to talk about it, and kids said that they wanted to watch it, so basically he just did what the kids wanted to do, " student Carole-Anne Bouchard-Giroux told CNN affiliate CTV on Wednesday.
He said when you scold Israel, basically you take some of the pressure off the Palestinians to do their own negotiating.
"The inventory in New York is basically old and tired, " he said.
"He basically never went for the needle, " said his friend George Suter.
"Dell's had some pretty credible offerings in the past, and the market basically said thanks but no thanks, " he says.
"We basically bait, trap and kill, " he said of the status quo.
"Before we came into the area we got Rentokill to come in on the site to do a cull basically of the existing rat holes, " he said.
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"You spend three or four days after a game recovering from what is basically the equivalent of two car crashes, " he said.
"There is a general political sentiment that it is not acceptable to be bailing out a country, and thereby putting European taxpayers' money at risk, to basically protect Russian depositors in Cypriot banks, " he said.
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