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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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The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations.
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The members of the Islamic Staye have cut the throat of an American on television. This is an insult to the United States, which requires that we demonstrate that this is not an act that is free. I would strongly favor a strong attack on ISIS for a period that is related to the murder of the American.
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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
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Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.
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Administration has managed the extraordinary feat of having, at one and the same time, the worst relations with our allies, the worst relations with our adversaries, and the most serious upheavals in the developing world since the end of the Second World War.
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Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.
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We have to be careful in negotiating with Iran that we don't create the impression among the Arab states and the Sunni states that we are working on a condominium between Iran and the United States, because that will panic them and drive them into making their own arrangement.
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In Asia, the nation state still is extremely vital, and of course, then in Africa, a whole new pattern is emerging because the states in Africa reflected the preferences of the colonial powers when they were established.
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We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.
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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
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I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.
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The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.
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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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I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.
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Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity.
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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
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I don't read books, I write them.
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It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical experience, as of personal experience, are contingent. They teach the consequences of certain actions, but they cannot force a recognition of comparable situations.
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If you control the oil you control the country if you control food, you control the population.
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