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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. "

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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" You know who's messianic? Netanyahu, because he talks that way. And that's a very risky position. "

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" Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences. "

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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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" The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security. "

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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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" It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses. "

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" There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it. "

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" Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks. "

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" Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president. "

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" Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every terroristic act is a specific political antecedent. That does not justify either the perpetrator or his political cause. Nonetheless, the fact is that almost all terrorist activity originates from some political conflict and is sustained by it as well. "

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" We can't have an intelligent foreign policy unless we have an intelligent public, because we're a democracy. "

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" We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States. "

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" One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone. "

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" Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content. "

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" Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East. "

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" I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety? "

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