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" 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. "

Paul Wolfowitz

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

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Life

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Process

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

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Irrelevant

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

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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 think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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Believe

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

" I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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