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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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Wesley Clark
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 23
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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 Hilary Clinton. I think she's - she's a fantastic leader.
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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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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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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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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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I like Hemingway and I like a lot Jewish writers (such as) Saul Bellow.
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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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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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The safety of our country demands an end to the doctrinaire, ineffective policies that currently grip Washington. Enough is enough! A safe America - a just America - that's what we want, that's what we need.
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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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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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I think you have to repudiate torture and I think you have to end what's going on at Guantanamo and you have to live up to American values. Basically you restore - what the American dream brought to the world stage was respect for the individual and the idea that people aren't pawns that rulers can push around but they have rights.
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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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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 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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What I learned in the military is that gossip starts early and it stays forever.
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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 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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Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.
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