Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

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

" 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. "

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

" I think that all countries that participate in multilateral institutions see the institutions as a way of advancing what they view as their national interests and they see in many cases multi-lateral institution as the best way to do that. "

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

" 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. "

" I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" Look, I think the notion that there's a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense. "

" It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted. "

" Democracy is a process. "

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

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