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" A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.' "
Great
Book
Me
" Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests. "
Advance
Interests
End
" Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States. "
States
Only
United
" I don't do carrots. "
Carrots
" I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail. "
Will
Given
Prevail
" I'm obviously aware that people are quite focused on the economy rather than foreign policy issues, but that is something that should and can be altered as people see the nature of the threats around the world that we face. "
Nature
Policy
See
" In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism. "
Best
View
Through
" I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival. "
Israel
Think
Survival
" I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances. "
Circumstances
Abortion
Right
" I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. "
War
Think
Responsibility
" It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il. "
People
Failed
Natural Disasters
" I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things. "
Government
Been
Bureaucracy
" Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. "
Struggle
Communism
Great
" Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard. "
Maybe
Government
Hard
" My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have. "
Influence
United States
Priority
" Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage. "
Policy
You
Your
" North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons. "
Get
North Korea
Going
" Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war. "
War
Fight
Politicians
" Reform is not a one-night stand. "
Stand
One-Night
Reform
" There is no such thing as the United Nations. "
Thing
United
United Nations
" There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference. "
Building
Difference
New York
" The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving. "
Many
Global
Competitors
" We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year. "
Indigenous
Within
Year
" Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom. "
I Believe
Individual
Believe
" When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence. "
Happier
You
Would
" You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to what that accomplishes. "
Know
Appreciate
Limit
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