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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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Wesley Clark
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 23
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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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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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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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Well we always need brave, capable young men and women who can run a tactical operation and take risks on the battlefield but you should know when we need you to go in there, that if there's any other way to do it, that we could do this without risking your life, we wouldn't ask you to risk your life.
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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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War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.
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The campaign in Iraq illustrates the continuing progress of military technology and tactics, but if there is a single overriding lesson it must be this: American military power, especially when buttressed by Britain's, is virtually unchallengeable today. Take us on? Don't try! And that's not hubris, it's just plain fact.
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You have to take a plan that might work and make it work
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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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I would have been a Republican, if Karl Rove had returned my phone calls.
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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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The time has passed in America when this party can be the party of compassion and let the executive branch run foreign policy. It won't work. We have to be the party that can stand toe to toe with George W. Bush on national security, as well as the party of compassion.
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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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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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George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.
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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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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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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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Already the scent of victory is in the air.
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Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.
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