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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.

Wesley Clark

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Wesley Clark
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: December 23
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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 be true to what you believe in and do your duty.
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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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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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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've forgotten more about national security than George W. Bush will ever learn.
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I would have been a Republican, if Karl Rove had returned my phone calls.
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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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