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

Wesley Clark

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Wesley Clark
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 23
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Military Personnel
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Wesley Kanne Clark
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You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.
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We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intel information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time.
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Everybody in the military has a reputation, and usually it doesn't come out to the public.
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I've forgotten more about national security than George W. Bush will ever learn.
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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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George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.
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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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You have to take a plan that might work and make it work
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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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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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Global warming is a matter of national security. Will we live in a world where we must fight our neighbors for fresh water and food? Or will we take the lead now and leave to our children and grandchildren a world better off than the one we inherited from our parents?
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The more Marines I have around, the better I like it.
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You need people with the courage to stand up and voice their opposition without being labeled unpatriotic.
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It doesn't take any more energy to create a big dream than it does to create a little one.
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We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.
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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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Imagine a world in which we saw beyond the lines that divide us, and celebrated our differences, instead of hiding from them. Imagine a world in which we finally recognized that, fundamentally, we are all the same. And imagine if we allowed that new understanding to build relations between people and between nations.
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I have grown up with guns all my life, but people who like assault weapons they should join the United States Army, we have them.
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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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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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