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" Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%. "
Between
Number
About
" I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy. "
Know
Think
Political
" If you ask me what am I, I might say 'I am a Californian,' and if George Bush were here, he would say 'I am a Texan.' "
You
Say
Me
" I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that. "
Government
You
Worry
" Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it. "
Attack
Weakness
System
" I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something very disruptive - a 9/11 - it's a no-brainer. "
Disruptive
You
Way
" It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye. "
Eye
Finger
King
" I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future. "
Live
Future
Better
" I want my grandchildren to be proud of me. That's the main thing. "
Main
Me
Grandchildren
" My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it. "
Say
Want
You
" Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer. "
People
Society
You
" Obama seems to want to do something to damage rich people. "
Rich People
Seems
Want
" Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people. "
People
Successful
You
" Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better. "
Better
Good
Political
" Strong growth means increased use of energy at a pace that can strain the capacity to supply what is needed at a reasonable price. "
Price
Growth
Pace
" Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds. "
Matter
Terrorism
Process
" The 1986 tax act is sort of the unsung hero of the very good economic times we had for a long time. Of course, politics gums it all up again and preferences get put in. "
Hero
Politics
Tax
" The armed forces are paying a lot more attention to the use of energy. The Air Force has realized that the paint on planes is heavy, so there are going to be a lot more silver planes, or planes painted in a less heavy way, so that you are using less fuel to get from point A to point B. "
Attention
Air Force
Energy
" The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists. "
Common
World
Terrorists
" The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it. "
Will
You
Quicker
" There is no prospect that the United States will say to Israel, 'You do such and such and we'll not support you in your security.' "
Will
Your
Support
" The source of all the energy is the sun. The big challenge is, how do you use all of that energy? Solar power has to fascinate you. There have been strides to get the costs down, and if this will work, you have to get costs down so it is competitive with fossil fuels. "
You
Energy
Power
" We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did. "
Time
Me
Problem
" What we want is scientists who don't become part of the policy discussion: All they do is produce science. If someone becomes an advocate, then I won't pay as much attention to their science. "
Science
Want
Someone
" You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion. "
Tax
Expansion
Through
" You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere. "
You
Going
Get
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