President Obama was right to ban torture, but the public must understand that this decision carries a potential cost in lost information. That's what makes it a moral choice.
We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often, we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do.
Even moderates, they can see in Trump the potential to have logjams broken and things finally get done. This makes some conservatives and some liberals furious, nervous, and me nervous a little bit, because I'm a pretty pure conservative. So that's a potential of his leadership.
Digital payments have already made it easier to move and manage money. While there's more work to do, the potential is real and understood.
A demography that is digitising rapidly, and the potential to invest in infrastructure, are the key strengths of India.
Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.
The quality and quantum of potential investors in Africa is huge.
If I'm sure of a person and his potential in politics, and if I know he will live up to his promises, I wouldn't mind campaigning for him. I believe in the dictum, 'never say never.' You never know, I might end up joining politics.
The United States cannot have the image of warmongers, with all the potential consequences it could have for our respective countries.
Fame is one of the potential hazards of this job, but I really just want to make movies. I want to be respected, sure. Who doesn't? But famous-famous? I just don't care about it. And if you genuinely don't give a damn about that stuff, you really are free.
The moment I realised anyone could be watching - and this is going to sound so name-droppy - was when Ricky Martin reached out to me on Coming Out Day 2012. The Internet has this massive potential, and you can never know the effect you might have on others by just being yourself.
From a product development perspective, choosing whether a technology is disruptive at a potential moment is key.
Learn to see yourself as Heavenly Father sees you - as His precious daughter or son with divine potential.
My red line is Iran may not have a nuclear weapon. It is inappropriate for them to have the capacity to terrorize the world. Iran with a nuclear weapon or with fissile material that can be given to Hezbollah or Hamas or others has the potential of not just destabilizing the Middle East.
Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.
Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential.
A new product, technology, or innovation - such as Bitcoin - has the potential to give rise both to frauds and high-risk investment opportunities. Potential investors can be easily enticed with the promise of high returns in a new investment space and also may be less skeptical when assessing something novel, new, and cutting-edge.
In the urgent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, with more attacks thought to be imminent, analysts wanted to use 'contact chaining' techniques to build what the NSA describes as network graphs of people who represented potential threats.
There's a lot of girls in the division I really like, but I always feel like there's this underlying sense of a potential matchup, potential competition. It adds a different element.
Research shows that women at that mid level tend to get promoted based on performance, and men tend to get promoted based on potential.
Growing up, it was very clear that I was a member of a royal family with a potential function later on. The question was: when and how and if?
Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.
A high school and college degree are linked to greater employment prospects, higher earning potential, and the ability to contribute more to our communities.
Gucci has great potential worldwide. Since it's inception in 1921, the brand has had a big visibility and many followers.
That's the very definition of freedom: to be allowed to develop our own creative potential to the fullest. But it doesn't have to be in the arts, obviously. In my case, I gravitated toward the arts.
The good inside of all of us is wrapped in a layer of apathy, and we forget how much potential we have within us, in each and every one of us, to change the world for the better for ourselves and our children, and thus to bring about oneness.
With its population making up one fifth of the world's total, China offers a market with enormous potential.
Just like hair frames our face, brows frame our eyes. I see so much potential in harmonized beauty whenever I see a woman who's not filling in her brows, and I just want to go in with my brow pencil and just be like, 'Filling in eyebrows, OK, done - look in the mirror and be inspired.' That's one of my pet peeves, but beauty is subjective.
I love this game. I love to find solutions, ideas. I always saw the potential of this league. Now that I'm here, I want to help.
I had played sports all my life, and I thought that was going to be the way. But I saw where the potential in football was going to end. When it comes to decision-making, I just follow my gut at the end of the day. And if I don't, I get in trouble. I wanted to become a filmmaker.
Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.
I'm going to go out and be the best quarterback I can be and get the most out of my potential.
I was called a 'CD' by a suicidal teenager, who is alive today because I became her 'Chosen Dad,' who loved her. We all have the potential to re-parent ourselves and others.
Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital.
The reality is: when you're slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.
Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.
