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" The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests. "
Paul Wolfowitz
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" Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one. "
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" 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. "
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" Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force. "
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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'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. "
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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. "
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" I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government. "
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" 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. "
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" For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into. "
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" It is kind of nice to have a common purpose. "
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" Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed. "
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" One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war. "
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" That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards. "
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" Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center. "
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" 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. "
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