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

" Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force. "

" 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. "

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

" We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way. "

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

" One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war. "

" 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. "

" That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views. "

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

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

" The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable. "

" The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high. "

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

" I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive. "

" 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. "

" Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities. "

" Democracy is a process. "

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

" I can't predict the future. "

" 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 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. "

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

" For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into. "

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