10/03/2007
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"Executive departments and agencies shall develop transparent, merit-based selection criteria that will guide their available discretion..."
"Let us remember the words that were written by the poet Saadi so many years ago: 'The children of Adam are limbs to each other, having been created of one essence.'"
"Pursuant to my constitutional authority to conduct the foreign relations of the United States, I have determined that it is in the foreign policy interest of the United States to defer for 12 months t..."
"The United States wants the Islamic Republic of Iran to take its rightful place in the community of nations."