"We are not talking about a privilege - basic healthcare is a human right, " he says.
We are not talking about big corporations sacrificing profits in order to gain a little market share.
We are not talking about vast numbers of children - we are talking about the most vulnerable children.
"We are not talking about quiet naps, we are talking about a man who falls deeply asleep, " he said.
We are not talking of small sums here, but massive transfers of wealth.
As a late Senator used to say, we are not talking about real money until we get into the billions.
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Of course, the recovery will take a good deal of time, but we are not talking here of day trading.
We are not talking a major change in their fortunes - a matter of a a third of a percentage point.
Next is the fact that we are not talking about a single antenna for the iPhone nor for any wireless device.
"We are not talking about Rover's return here, we're not talking about the return of mass car manufacturing, " said Mr Burdon.
"We are not talking about a power struggle, about trying to get more money, about trying to be more greedy, " he insisted.
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But in the 21st century we are not talking about poor countries.
We are not talking about a citizen or resident becoming an expatriate and moving to Russia, Singapore or some other country.
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"We are not talking about doubling the number of games, it may be adding just one or two, " Barcelona vice-president Ferran Soriano told BBC Sport.
However, we are not talking about boom times ahead for Centrica.
We are not talking about adding a percentage point to growth.
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"We are not talking about something that is going to suddenly pop up and kill someone in six months or a year, " explained panel member Michael Tuttle of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
But this is an error of taste, not a fatal mistake, and though it's undeniably irritating, it fails to diminish the play's impact, just as Mr. Albee's occasional lapses into preachiness ("We are not talking about the rights we pretend we give ourselves in this bewildered land of ours") are mere surface flaws.
This seems to be enshrined in their conditions of service - and we are not just talking here about politicians.
"There is a certain period by which Setanta will have to pay up - and we are talking weeks not months, " he said.
And when we speak of Silicon Valley today, we are talking about their attitude, not the fact that they made 16K bit CMOS DRAM memory chips.
"We are not convinced entirely at this point that we are talking about a robbery or an attempted robbery, " said national police chief Yohanan Danino.
But then again, we're probably not talking about steak now, are we?
"What we are talking about is not five days a week in the county council, I will be a backbench county councillor, " he said.
Telling people to like themselves more is definitely not the phenomenon we are talking about.
People do not understand - we are talking about the equivalent of non-League football.
But on the positive side, not only are we talking about a problem everyone seemed happier ignoring, we're also pushing each other to solve it and planning some even more ambitious experiments.
"This house should not forget that we are talking about some of the most dangerous men in the world who have, in the past, displayed murderous and suicidal tendencies, and often both together, " he told MPs.
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