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On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.


Originally, the main purpose of the convention was to determine who the party would have as the presidential nominee and the vice-presidential nominee.


The Republicans need all the entertainment help they can get. When Charlie Daniels was one of your convention headliners, you know you need some serious help.


If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.


Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention.


In 1980, I watched my first Republican convention with my grandfather.


In 1987, the United States celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of the constitutional convention that provided the basic rules for the American political order. This convention was one of the very few historical examples in which political rules were deliberately chosen.


This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.


Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks.


I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.


I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.


It's always interesting - how do you actually convey thought through song? We're used to the convention on stage. In film, we used to be used to it, and now sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. You need to be fresh and really look at the material.


I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.


You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.


I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.


I never did a convention before I did 'The Hobbit.'


I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.


By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.


If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?


However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane methods used by these killers.