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" I can't predict the future. "

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" Democracy is a process. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it. "

" I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests. "

" 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. "

" History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible. "

" 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. "

" I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away. "

" Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed. "

" 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. "

" Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result. "

" I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life. "

" If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well. "

" I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems. "

" Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs - and more growth. "

" I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards. "

" The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world. "

" 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. "

" Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes. "

" 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. "

" For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all. "

" The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them. "

" You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS. "

" 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. "