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" I was deeply involved in the decision that President Jimmy Carter made to boycott the Olympics in Moscow in 1980. "

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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" I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy. "

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" The congressional role in declaring war is especially important not when the United States is the victim of an attack, but when the United States is planning to wage war abroad. "

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" As America's nuclear strategic monopoly faded, the United States sought to create advantages elsewhere, notably in the peaceful cooperation between the United States and communist China under Deng Xiaoping. "

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" It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses. "

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" I don't feel I was 'born American,' but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II, and I craved something I could identify with. When I became a student at Harvard in the 1950s, America very quickly filled the vacuum. I felt I was American, but I think it's more revealing of America how quickly others here accepted me. "

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" I realise that in an electoral campaign, you don't want to antagonise large groups which are highly motivated. "

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" The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation. "

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" According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. "

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" The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real. "

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" We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised. "

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" You go to Paris, or you go to Portugal, you go to Poland, and you ask, 'Who are you people?' They'll tell you, we're Portuguese, we're Spanish, we're Polish. Who are the people that are really European? The people in Brussels, in the E.U. bureaucracy. Europe has not been able to move to the level of patriotic identification with the concept. "

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" Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively. "

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" One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone. "

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" We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would. "

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" We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. "

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" We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old. "

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" Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade. "

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" All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia. "

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" Commitment and credibility go hand in hand. "

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" War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions. "

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" Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content. "

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" Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset. "

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" Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future. "

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" Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom. "

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" Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems. "

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" World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East. "

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" Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East. "

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" The first 'world' war was in reality the last European war fought by globally significant European powers. "

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