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" Reform is not a one-night stand. "

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" A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.' "

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" Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage. "

" My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have. "

" There is no such thing as the United Nations. "

" Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. "

" Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States. "

" I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things. "

" Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war. "

" I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. "

" When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence. "

" Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests. "

" The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving. "

" I don't do carrots. "

" I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail. "

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" We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year. "

" I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival. "

" You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to what that accomplishes. "