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It's important. One of the principles in the United States is civilian control of the military.

Wesley Clark

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Wesley Clark
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 23
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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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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 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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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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The more Marines I have around, the better I like it.
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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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You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.
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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've forgotten more about national security than George W. Bush will ever learn.
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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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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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You have to take a plan that might work and make it work
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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 would have been a Republican, if Karl Rove had returned my phone calls.
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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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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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It doesn't take any more energy to create a big dream than it does to create a little one.
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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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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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