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

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" 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. "

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

" It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Democracy is a process. "

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

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

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

" Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result. "