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I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.
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Let me make my point about Vietnam. When the Nixon initiation came into office, there were 550,000 Americans in combat. And ending the war was not a question of turning off a television channel. And so, debating on how we got there and what judgments were made was not going to help us.
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Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?
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Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt to salvage self-respect from the outcome compounded the wrong. I viewed it as a genuine tragedy. No one had a monopoly on anguish.
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There is no realism without an element of idealism.
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Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
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I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.
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The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.
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While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
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Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states.
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I don't have a brief for every single reaction of Israel, but I think it is important that the political negotiations occur free of the threat of terrorism.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.
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The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.
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Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.
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We cannot give Russia veto over deployment of forces on NATO territory. But we have to understand their particular sensitivities, and, therefore, there should be a dialogue on these issues.
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[Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves.
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Realism in foreign policy is made up of a clear set of values, since difficult foreign policy decisions are often decided with the narrowest of majorities. Without any sense of what is right and wrong, one would drown in a flood of difficult and pragmatic decisions.
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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem.
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If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
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