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I've worked for four presidents, and I've concluded that almost nothing is inevitable. History is to a significant extent the result of the interaction of personalities and ideas. And so I don't believe war between the U.S. and China is in any way inevitable, and it's well within the province of diplomacy and statecraft to avoid it.

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We ought to be doing much more in North America. We are on the cusp of an energy revolution. And we do need to be doing more at home. The biggest nat…

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You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.

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If there's any country that has the capacity not to control North Korea, but to influence North Korea, it's still China. The Chinese always say they …

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Television was our chief tool in selling our policy.

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Hillary Clinton is pretty much what we would call a foreign-policy realist, someone who thinks the purpose of American foreign policy should be to ad…

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Globalisation thus implies that sovereignty...needs to become weaker.

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Well, we ought to make clear to everybody that the next Korean War, if one were ever to happen, is going to be the last Korean War because it's going…

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Sovereignty must be redefined if states are to cope with globalisation.

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I think Hillary Clinton is more suspicious, clearly tougher on Russian policy in Ukraine, Georgia, Syria; more willing to support sanctions; not agai…

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