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" We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way. "

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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. "

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

" For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into. "

" Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one. "

" Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities. "

" I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism. And that's why it has to be a broad and sustained campaign. "

" I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life. "

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

" 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. "

" The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high. "

" 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. "

" I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away. "

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

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

" 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. "

" You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS. "

" The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring. "

" We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable. "

" 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. "

" 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. "