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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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" It is kind of nice to have a common purpose. "

" The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring. "

" I can't predict the future. "

" 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. "

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

" Democracy is a process. "

" 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. "

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

" It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities. "

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

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

" You can't win if you're chasing the wrong problem. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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