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" Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result. "
Paul Wolfowitz
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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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" 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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" Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different. "
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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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" 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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" Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes. "
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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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" 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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" 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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People
Money
" You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS. "
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You
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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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" 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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Key
Believe
" I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government. "
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Government
Powerful
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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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Fear
More
Past
" 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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My Life
Father
" 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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People
Say
Want
" 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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World
History
" I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive. "
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War
Alive
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