"America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community." ― Adam Schiff Topic(s): Power Tags: america, critical More From Adam Schiff "The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th." "Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King’s faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night." "But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11." More In Power "Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you."― E. Stanley Jones "An evil life is a kind of death."― Ovid "The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination."― Robert Frost