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Democracy is a process.
We are not going to abandon Iraq.
Keep your heart with a chaste mind
Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.
In my job I do my best to look forward.
Be moderate in everything, including moderation.
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.
A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.
The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.
Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst.
Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things.
Firing employees, that's unfortunately part of doing business.
I think that women often can connect at a heart to heart level.
To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.
I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.
We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way.
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
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.
Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.
I choose what I believe, and say nothing. For I am not as simple as I may seem.
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.
The very first step toward giving to others is grateful recognition of our own assets.
I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.
History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.
It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.
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.
Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.
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.
I've read enough novels to know just how much time & energy it takes to fall in love and I just don't have the time
People seem to forget that Saddam was the only leader in the world who praised the attacks of 9/11 as a good thing.
I constantly signal to the Iraqi leaders that our patience, or the patience of the American people, is running out.
Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one.
The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring.
Islamic State is mainly a direct result of the failure in Syria. That's where IS has grown. That's where IS spread from.
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.