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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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Wesley Kanne Clark
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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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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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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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I don't think it's patriotic to put on a flight suit and prance around on the deck of an aircraft carrier looking for a photo op. We have a president of the United States who did not do his duty to take care of America. If you're patriotic, you do your duty.
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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 '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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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 like Hemingway and I like a lot Jewish writers (such as) Saul Bellow.
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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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I would have been a Republican, if Karl Rove had returned my phone calls.
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You have to take a plan that might work and make it work
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I'm pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-environment and pro-labor. I was either going to be the loneliest Republican in America or I was going to be a happy Democrat.
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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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George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.
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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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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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What I learned in the military is that gossip starts early and it stays forever.
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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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President George Bush had the courage and the vision and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship.
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