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" Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it. "
Paul Wolfowitz
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" It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted. "
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" Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force. "
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" Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed. "
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" I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government. "
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" Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center. "
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" I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems. "
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" I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away. "
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" I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism. And that's why it has to be a broad and sustained campaign. "
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" The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world. "
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" I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive. "
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" Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one. "
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" It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities. "
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" Look, I think the notion that there's a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense. "
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" I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards. "
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" The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable. "
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" The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring. "
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" I'm not sure the oil producers are enjoying real growth. That troubles me. For experience has shown that oil can be more of a curse than a blessing. And not only in Africa. "
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" Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result. "
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" I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not. "
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" History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible. "
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" I can't predict the future. "
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" I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round. "
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" No one argues that we should have imposed a dictatorship in Afghanistan having liberated the country. Similarly, we weren't about to impose a dictatorship in Iraq having liberated the country. "
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" China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States. "
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" I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me. "
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" It is kind of nice to have a common purpose. "
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" If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well. "
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" Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities. "
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" I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life. "
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