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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. "

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" I can't predict the future. "

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

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Democracy is a process. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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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