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The British capitalize on their accent when they don't want you to know what they're saying. But if you wake them up at 4 A.M., they speak perfect English, the same as we do.

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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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The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is not a policy it is an alibi for the absence of one. The test is not absolute satisfaction but balanced dissatisfaction.
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You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
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It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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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 have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.
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No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
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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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I know Hillary Clinton as a person. And as a personal friend, I would say yes, she'd be a good president. But she'd put me under a great conflict of interest if she were a candidate because I intend to support the Republicans.
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I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.
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In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom you are cooperating. You need reliable partners.
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People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
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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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A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.
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Any international system must have two key elements for it to work. One, it has to have a certain equilibrium of power that makes overthrowing the system difficult and costly. Secondly, it has to have a sense of legitimacy.
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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 longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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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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With respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and the advent of détente, one has to consider two things. One, the nature of nuclear weapons in themselves, and secondly, the advent of nuclear parity.
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