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" Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Lady
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" The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution. "
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" It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety. "
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" We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old. "
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" World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East. "
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" Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks. "
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" I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security? "
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" I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety? "
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" Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity. "
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" During the twentieth century, men fought on behalf of nationalism. Yet the wars they fought were also engendered by dislocations in world markets and by social revolution stimulated by the coming of the industrial age. "
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" But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media. "
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" Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us? "
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" According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. "
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" We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised. "
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" Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences. "
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" The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation. "
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" Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue. "
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" Commitment and credibility go hand in hand. "
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" I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation. "
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" American power worldwide is at its historic zenith. "
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" Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear. "
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" The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable. "
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" Eurasia is the world's axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world's three most economically productive regions: Western Europe and East Asia. "
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" AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy. "
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" Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand. "
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" Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade. "
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" Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition. "
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" Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context. "
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" The public has been told repeatedly that terrorism is 'evil,' which it undoubtedly is, and that 'evildoers' are responsible for it, which doubtless they are. But beyond these justifiable condemnations, there is a historical void. "
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" I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands. "
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