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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States. "

" I can't predict the future. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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