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Terrorists are everywhere and, emphatically, not only in Iraq.
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Terrorists
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America is a country of immigrants. It's what makes America unique.
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Immigrants
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I follow the Cubs. Only when they play the Nationals do I have a conflict.
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Conflict
Cubs
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We have not been a normal country when it comes to engagement in the world.
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Engagement
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The more Trump emphasises America First, the more it turns into America Alone.
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Turns
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A big challenge in combating terrorism is learning how to think about things that we can't imagine.
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Imagine
Terrorism
Big Challenge
Challenge
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One of the amazing things about September 11 is that we lacked the imagination to connect the dots and foresee it.
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Imagination
Amazing Things
Dots
September
Connect
Foresee
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On climate change, the science is clearer about what you need to do to get a real impact than... on counterterrorism.
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Climate
Climate Change
Impact
Change Science Climate
Clearer
Counterterrorism
Get A Real
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I think when the military ousts a sitting president, even if the sitting president is deeply unpopular, that's the definition of a coup.
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Military
President
Sitting
Unpopular
Coup
Deeply
Definition
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The only place I've ever been where people were as proud about their city as people are in Chicago is Florence, Italy, where I lived for three years.
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Chicago
Florence
Italy
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I think George H. W. Bush, who I had lots of disagreements with, remarkably managed the end of the Cold War in a way that history will look back at and say, 'Wow.'
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Cold War
Disagreements
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Putin wants nothing less than to return Russia to the center of global politics by challenging the primacy that the United States has enjoyed since the end of the Cold War.
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Cold War
Primacy
Putin
Russia
Challenging
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Trump believes all foreigners are playing us for suckers - he sees the world as a dark place. How can you lead alliances when you keep telling your allies they are ripping you off?
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Foreigners
World Your Keep
Alliance
Believes
Dark Place
Ripping
Sees
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I think George H.W. Bush was confronted with some huge challenges - the invasion of Kuwait, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the fall of the Soviet Union - that he managed with great aplomb.
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Berlin
Berlin Wall
Invasion
Soviet
Soviet Union
Confronted
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Anybody who has been to Chicago has a very positive view. But not everybody has come to Chicago, and in many ways, Chicago is an undiscovered treasure. It punches below its weight internationally.
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Positive
Chicago
Treasure
Weight
Anybody
Below
Internationally
Punches
View
Undiscovered
Ways
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Our fundamental goal in getting involved in Bosnia in the summer of 1995 was to end the war. Richard Holbrooke's fundamental goal was to negotiate a peace: a peace that was sustaining and self-sustaining over the long term.
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Bosnia
Sustaining
War Peace Long
Fundamental
Negotiate
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We have built up, through our global engagement, a set of institutions that have been built on trust, fundamentally on trust, where allies had trust in the United States to do the right thing when it really came down to it.
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Allies
Engagement
Right Thing
Do The Right Thing
Fundamentally
The Right Thing
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Donald Trump has proven adept at mobilizing anti-immigrant and anti-trade sentiment among a minority of Americans into a strong movement that seeks to put the United States first in global affairs. Yet, his is not the majority's view.
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Adept
Proven
Affairs
Donald
Donald Trump
Sentiment
Minority
Seeks
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President Trump is hardly the first U.S. president to call on the European allies to do more - in one form or another, every president since Harry Truman has done so. What is different this time, however, is Trump's suggestion that America's commitment to the alliance is conditional.
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Conditional
Truman
Alliance
Hardly
Harry
President Trump
Suggestion
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Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has embarked on a systematic challenge to the West. The goal is to weaken the bonds between Europe and the United States and among E.U. members, undermine NATO's solidarity, and strengthen Russia's strategic position in its immediate neighborhood and beyond.
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Nato
Neighborhood
Putin
Russia
Solidarity
Strategic
Systematic
Bonds
Embarked
Immediate
Undermine
Vladimir Putin
Weaken
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Syria is a signature to the Geneva Protocol of 1925, which bans the use of chemical warfare. Syria has violated that international norm. For the United States to act in response is the right thing to do, is a legitimate thing to do, and is necessary in order to uphold this very important international standard.
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Geneva
Norm
Protocol
Response
Right Thing
Syria
Warfare
Chemical
Legitimate
Standard
Signature
The Right Thing
Uphold
Violated
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Many observers believe that the greatest damage Russia has done to U.S. interests in recent years stems from the Kremlin's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential race. Although there is no question that Moscow's meddling in American elections is deeply worrying, it is just one aspect of the threat Russia poses.
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Aspect
Damage
Interference
Just One
Meddling
Moscow
Observers
Presidential
Russia
Threat
Elections
No Question
One Aspect
Poses
Presidential Race
Recent
Recent Years
Stems
Worrying
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