Never mind if we don't speak the language, don't have the skills or experience to qualify for the jobs we're doing, or don't know anything about what life is like "over there".

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We don't speak to that in detail for security reasons.

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We speak English, they don't speak English.

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"We don't currently have that so we're having to come to collaborative arrangements - I speak on behalf of my own force, " she said.

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But the people that we speak to say that even if they tried, they don't have the numbers to carry the vote through.

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He added, "many times we don't deliver the message well, " stressing that Republicans need to "speak to the heart, " not just the head.

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"We have been trying to talk to the unions for some considerable time, but it appears they don't wish to speak to us, " he said.

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"I have a big concern that we don't actually know what his policies are because you know throughout the primary he had his policies that he would speak about, and since he clinched the nomination on June 3, he's really backtracked, " said Nili Navot, 28, an education worker from New York who came to Washington for the PUMA happy hour at the bar.

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