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" The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them. "

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" Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force. "

" If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well. "

" I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards. "

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

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

" For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" It is kind of nice to have a common purpose. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Democracy is a process. "

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

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

" One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war. "

" 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. "

" I can't predict the future. "

" 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. "

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

" Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs - and more growth. "

" I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems. "

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