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

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

" I can't predict the future. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "