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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.
I don't think we should pay people to fight terrorism. I would be amazed if they asked for anything in return.
People, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations.
I realise that in an electoral campaign, you don't want to antagonise large groups which are highly motivated.
Perhaps the most troubling area in the world goes from the Balkans through the Middle East and in Central Asia.
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.
I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.
The Ukrainian opposition should adopt democratic unity as its main principle, and it also must have one leader.
The Israelis want security. The Arabs want dignity. And they consider the demands of each other as incompatible.
This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.
The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.
Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
The United States wants to be part of the solution to its problems and not, in part, the maker of their problems.
I was deeply involved in the decision that President Jimmy Carter made to boycott the Olympics in Moscow in 1980.
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
One has to be willing to face the fact that what has transpired in Iraq is not exactly a very successful exercise.
Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.
Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.
I think America has to do more than be a broker now. Because both the Palestinians are weak and Israel is very weak.
The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.
I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.
In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.
Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.
Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.
Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity.
We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the US-Soviet antagonisms.
It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.
Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.
Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.
In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.
The position is that stability and peace in Asia depend on a cooperative relationship between China and the United States.
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity.
Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.
I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.
One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.
Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.