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What I learned in the military is that gossip starts early and it stays forever.

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Wesley Clark
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 23
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Wesley Kanne Clark
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Well, it came from the White House, it came from people around the White House. It came from all over. I got a call on 9/11. I was on CNN, and I got a call at my home saying, 'You got to say this is connected. This is state-sponsored terrorism. This has to be connected to Saddam Hussein.
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It 's really hard to impose democracy. It has to emerge naturally. You have to get out of the way and let it happen.
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I'm pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-environment and pro-labor. I was either going to be the loneliest Republican in America or I was going to be a happy Democrat.
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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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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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Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.
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You have to take a plan that might work and make it work
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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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Working together, we can build a world in which the rule of law - not the rule of force - governs relations between states. A world in which leaders respect the rights of their people, and nations seek peace, not destruction or domination. And neither we nor anyone else should live in fear ever again.
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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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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 like Hilary Clinton. I think she's - she's a fantastic leader.
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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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I like Hemingway and I like a lot Jewish writers (such as) Saul Bellow.
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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.
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President George Bush had the courage and the vision and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship.
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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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As president of the United States, my top priority will be to keep America safe. We're going to go after the terrorist networks. We're going to go after Osama bin Laden. We are not going to live in fear in this country.
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Veterans have had a long record of leaning towards the Republican Party. I think that's changing. I think that President Obama has the strongest record with veterans among any president in my lifetime.
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