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" We can't have an intelligent foreign policy unless we have an intelligent public, because we're a democracy. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Intelligent
Because
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" I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation. "
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" The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real. "
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" We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists. "
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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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" 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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" The war of choice in Iraq could never have gained the congressional support it got without the psychological linkage between the shock of 9/11 and the postulated existence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. "
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" I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk. "
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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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" Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states. "
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" Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context. "
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" Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory. "
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" If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran? "
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" Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom. "
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" I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands. "
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" There may be circumstances in which damaging our relationship with countries over human rights is counterproductive and the benefits to human rights may be very small because of our limited capacity to enforce our stance. That was the dilemma the United States faced after Tiananmen Square. "
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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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Russia
Bring
Media
" Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president. "
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Lady
First
You
" I do think America has made it quite clear that it is in the interest both of America and China to avoid situations in which they will be pushed toward a collision. "
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Avoid
America
Made
" We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Seek
Should
Old
" In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option. "
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Succeed
Option
Must
" The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation. "
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Two
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" If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect for America's world role than that? "
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See
" Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East. "
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" During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism. "
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Reality
New
Men
" The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side. "
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War
Defeat
End
" Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of al-Qaida. "
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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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" We all have the right to comment about each other. "
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Comment
About
Each
" Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade. "
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Open
America
American
" The culture of self-gratification and deregulation that began during the Clinton years and continued under President George W. Bush led to the bursting of one stock market bubble at the turn of the century and a full-scale financial crash less than a decade later. "
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