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" Rushing to war is not a wise course of action. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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" Pakistan's political instability is its greatest vulnerability, and a decline in U.S. power would reduce America's ability to aid Pakistan's consolidation and development. "
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" It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam. "
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" I don't feel I was 'born American,' but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II, and I craved something I could identify with. When I became a student at Harvard in the 1950s, America very quickly filled the vacuum. I felt I was American, but I think it's more revealing of America how quickly others here accepted me. "
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" Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal. "
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" Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition. "
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" The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive. "
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" Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it. "
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" Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire. "
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" We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult. "
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" The Soviet Union's termination, which brought to an end the bipolar world, ushered in an era of U.S. hegemony. Hegemony, however, should not be confused with omnipotence. Hegemony is not omnipotence but is certainly preponderance. "
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" We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree. "
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" War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions. "
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View
" The worsening of relations between a declining America and an internally troubled Mexico could even give rise to a particularly ominous phenomenon: the emergence, as a major issue in nationalistically aroused Mexican politics, of territorial claims justified by history and ignited by cross-border incidents. "
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History
" The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security. "
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Europe
Us
" Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences. "
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" Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear. "
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" AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy. "
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Healthy
" I would like to promote internal change in Iran - which is more likely if we don't fuse Iranian nationalism with Iranian fundamentalism. "
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" The costly unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency led to a decade of war in the Middle East and the derailment of American foreign policy at large. "
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" Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times. "
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" The culture of self-gratification and deregulation that began during the Clinton years and continued under President George W. Bush led to the bursting of one stock market bubble at the turn of the century and a full-scale financial crash less than a decade later. "
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" But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media. "
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" The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses. "
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" We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old. "
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" There may be circumstances in which damaging our relationship with countries over human rights is counterproductive and the benefits to human rights may be very small because of our limited capacity to enforce our stance. That was the dilemma the United States faced after Tiananmen Square. "
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