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NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order.

One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land. What we have now would have been enough to deter Hitler. But we are talking in a different order of reality.

Administration has managed the extraordinary feat of having, at one and the same time, the worst relations with our allies, the worst relations with our adversaries, and the most serious upheavals in the developing world since the end of the Second World War.

An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.

Would food be considered an instrument of national power? ... Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can't/won't control their population growth?

Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.

To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.

What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system

The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.

It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.

My country's history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible despite the variety of races, interests, and beliefs we see here in this chamber. Progress and peace and justice are attainable. So we say to all peoples and governments: Let us fashion together a new world order.

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.

I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.

Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?

The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

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