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“I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.”
“I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.”
“Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.”
“I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.”
“I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.”
“Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.”
“Obviously, you make preparations before you engage in any meeting.”
“People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.”
“I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command.”
“There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.”
“I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.”
“If Iran obtains nuclear weapons, then almost certainly Saudi Arabia will do the same, as will Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others in the region.”
“I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.”
“I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.”
“There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.”
“We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year.”
“It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.”
“You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to what that accomplishes.”
“Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.”