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Democracy is a process.
Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.
You cant win if youre chasing the wrong problem.
You can't win if you're chasing the wrong problem.
The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.
The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.
Firing employees, that's unfortunately part of doing business.
I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.
To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.
We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.
If a cat sits on a hot stove once, it will never sit on a cold one either.
I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me.
After a regime is removed, however, it is dangerous to leave a security vacuum.
The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.
For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.
Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it.
That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.
Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.
You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.
I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.
History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.
I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.
People change their habits. I know Americans who don't go to Paris because they think it is too dangerous.
The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable.
Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them.
For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.
Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force.
I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.
People seem to forget that Saddam was the only leader in the world who praised the attacks of 9/11 as a good thing.
Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.
Islamic State is mainly a direct result of the failure in Syria. That's where IS has grown. That's where IS spread from.
The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring.
I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems.
Generally speaking, the stronger the connection between the financing and the ultimate beneficiary, the better the result.
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.
The only way you can be comfortable about Donald Trump's foreign policy, is to think he doesn't really mean anything he says.
I certainly think it's important to speak up and say how unacceptable Donald Trump is. I'm always more than willing to do that.
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.
I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.
Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.
One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.
Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.
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 Bernie Sanders phenomenon shows that it's not confined to Republicans. There is a general sentiment that America is on the wrong track.
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 wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for. I might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though I have big reservations about her.
Look, I think the notion that theres a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense.
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 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...