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" It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety. "

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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" We defended our allies in Europe for 40 years during the worst days of the Cold War - very threatening days of the Cold War - and nothing happened. So deterrence does work. "

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" AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy. "

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

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" If the United States and China can accommodate each other on a broad range of issues, the prospects for stability in Asia will be greatly increased. "

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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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" 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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" If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran? "

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" The culture of self-gratification and deregulation that began during the Clinton years and continued under President George W. Bush led to the bursting of one stock market bubble at the turn of the century and a full-scale financial crash less than a decade later. "

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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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" The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive. "

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" Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essential. "

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" Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear. "

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" We all have the right to comment about each other. "

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" Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition. "

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" Human affairs require some combination of moral commitment with disciplined political action. And that is what keeps me intrigued and challenged and wanting to influence events. "

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" To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well. "

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" The Soviet Union's termination, which brought to an end the bipolar world, ushered in an era of U.S. hegemony. Hegemony, however, should not be confused with omnipotence. Hegemony is not omnipotence but is certainly preponderance. "

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" Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue. "

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" Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate. "

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" Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it. "

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" Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences. "

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" The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair. "

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" We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States. "

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" During the twentieth century, men fought on behalf of nationalism. Yet the wars they fought were also engendered by dislocations in world markets and by social revolution stimulated by the coming of the industrial age. "

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" Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East. "

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" War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions. "

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" Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president. "

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" A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and less willing to sacrifice resources for the sake of others' development. "

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