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“It’s not easy to host all these countries. It’s particularly not easy to host, perhaps, me.”
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“I’m worried about overcommitting our military around the world. I want to be judicious in its use. You mentioned Haiti. I wouldn’t have sent troops to Haiti. I didn’t think it was a mission worthwhile. It was a nation building mission, and it was not very successful. It cost us billions, a couple billions of dollars, and I’m not so sure democracy is any better off...”
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“The prevailing democratic system in the world is not suitable for us in this region. We have our own Muslim faith, which is a complete system and complete religion. Elections do not fall within the sphere of the Muslim religion.”
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“Why don’t you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace? Why don’t you do that? You find it possible to set some limitations in your dealings with these bastards, so why should we talk to people who are child-killers?”
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“We showed weakness, and weak people are beaten.”
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“For once, there appears to be the political will among the African nations to do something about a crisis on their own continent. But to make that effective, it needs the UN to flex its muscles. That is something the UN has yet to show it has an ability, leave alone an intention, to do.”
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“I will do whatever the Americans want, because I saw what happened in Iraq, and I was afraid.”
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“We’ve done a lot of liberation in Europe after other Europeans had occupied parts of Europe.”
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“There is a myth that though we love freedom, others don’t; that our attachment to freedom is a product of our culture; that freedom, democracy, human rights, the rule of law are American values or Western values; that Afghan women were content under the lash of the Taliban; that Saddam was somehow beloved by his people; that Milosevic was Serbia’s savior. Members of Congress, ours are not Western values. They are the universal values of the human spirit, and anywhere, any time ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defense and our first line of attack.”
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“What has to be appreciated is that decisions have consequences and some of the approaches that were taken by some of our continental colleagues were simply inexplicable to most people in the United States.”
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“If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact, not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.”
Shimon Peres
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“Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil.”
Golda Meir
