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I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.

Wesley Clark

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Wesley Clark
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 23
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One of the principles that we operate on in this country is that leaders are held accountable. The simple truth is that we went into Iraq on the basis of some intuition, some fear, and some exaggerated rhetoric and some very, very scanty evidence.
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Maybe it's because I've never been in politics, but I don't believe that America is run by politicians in Washington. I believe it's run by people like us, in places like this.
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Anyone who tells you that one political party has a monopoly on the best defense of our nation is committing a fraud on the American people.
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We've proven to be quite flexible and adept in the way that we've changed what was the original pattern of air activities into something that's now very focused on the battlefield.
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I'm spiritual. I'm religious. I'm a strong Christian and I'm a Catholic but I go to a Presbyterian Church. Occasionally I go to the Catholic church too. I take communion. I haven't transferred my membership or anything.
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It was of tremendous comfort. I always said my prayers at night. My mother taught actually me to say prayers at night but most of it came from the church.
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I don't think you can solve what's going on in Iraq unless you can deal effectively with the region and you can't deal effectively with the region if you start with the premise that you can't talk to people who disagree with you.
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It's important. One of the principles in the United States is civilian control of the military.
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There are only two kinds of plans. Plans that might work and plans that won't work... you have to take a plan that might work and make it work.
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The truth is, about the Middle East is, had there been no oil there, it would be like Africa. Nobody is threatening to intervene in Africa.
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Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th century idea and we are trying to transition into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states.
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This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.
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War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.
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I like Hemingway and I like a lot Jewish writers (such as) Saul Bellow.
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I would have been a Republican, if Karl Rove had returned my phone calls.
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I've forgotten more about national security than George W. Bush will ever learn.
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Serious research and development efforts are required to produce technologies, strategies, organizations, and trained personnel who can go into failed states, work with our allies and friends, and promote the political and economic reforms that will meet popular needs and reduce the sources of terrorism and conflict.
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When you use force, people get hurt, and when you kill people, their relatives don't like it. And usually war has some unanticipated consequences so it's something you shouldn't launch into, on the expectation that this is going to rally the nation. This is not like 'Friday Night Lights'.
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Nothing is going to hurt this country - not bioweapons, not a nuclear weapon, not a terrorist strike - there is nothing that can hurt us if we stay united and move together and have a vision for moving to the future the right way.
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I tremendously admire, and I think we all should, the great work done by our commander in chief, our president George Bush...
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