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The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

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If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
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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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Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.
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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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This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.
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I do not criticize people who take a public stand on human rights issues. I express my respect for them. But some people are more influential without a public confrontation.
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The problem is Russia is a country that has lost 300 years of its history, in terms of most of what was part of the Russian Empire in Europe, towards Europe, since Peter the Great, has been the territory that is no longer under Russian rule.
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If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
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Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.
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Almost every peace process that has gone on between the Arab side and Israel, the United States has been somewhat isolated because most of the countries in the world, what they really want is to accept the Arab peace plan or so-called peace plan, which in its present form would lead to the destruction of Israel.
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The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
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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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