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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" I can't predict the future. "

" 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. "

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

" Democracy is a process. "

" Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different. "

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

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