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

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

" Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs - and more growth. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Democracy is a process. "

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

" 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. "

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

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