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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all. "

" You can't win if you're chasing the wrong problem. "

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

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

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

" Democracy is a process. "

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

" I can't predict the future. "

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

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

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