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" The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Culture
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" We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised. "
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" Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. "
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" To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone. "
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" If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world. "
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" A Russia that gradually begins to gravitate toward the West will also be a Russia that ceases to disrupt the international system. "
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" We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. "
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" The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution. "
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" The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation. "
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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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" 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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" With the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers. "
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" The congressional role in declaring war is especially important not when the United States is the victim of an attack, but when the United States is planning to wage war abroad. "
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" I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy. "
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" As America's nuclear strategic monopoly faded, the United States sought to create advantages elsewhere, notably in the peaceful cooperation between the United States and communist China under Deng Xiaoping. "
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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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" Rushing to war is not a wise course of action. "
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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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" Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand. "
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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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" American power worldwide is at its historic zenith. "
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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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" 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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" I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy. "
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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 financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed. "
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" Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future. "
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