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" Democracy is a process. "
Paul Wolfowitz
Democracy
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" For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into. "
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" We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States. "
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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 have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject. "
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" Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it. "
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" I think that all countries that participate in multilateral institutions see the institutions as a way of advancing what they view as their national interests and they see in many cases multi-lateral institution as the best way to do that. "
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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 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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" One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war. "
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" It is kind of nice to have a common purpose. "
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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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" 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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" Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed. "
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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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" 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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Country
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" That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views. "
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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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" 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 mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive. "
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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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