- Nov 07, 2020
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- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.
- Executive Branch
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- Nov 07, 2020
Serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch.
- Choice
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- Nov 07, 2020
My career is not well thought out. Every choice has been instinctive and, quite literally, impulsive in many ways.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was extremely close to my father, inseparable. Where we hung out most of the time was the pub.
- Frame
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States should not frame its policy options in terms of doing nothing or unilaterally sending in the Marines.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Initially, I tried to become an aid worker and someone who could help people, but I was unsuccessful in convincing anyone that I could be of any use. So I went and became a war correspondent without any experience in war or in being a correspondent. So that was daring.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that is home to friends and partners and one of our closest allies. It is important because the Syrian regime possesses stores of chemical weapons that they have recently used on a large scale and that we cannot allow to fall into terrorists' hands.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Half of Syria's refugees are children, and we know what can happen to children who grow to adulthood without hope or opportunity in refugee camps. The camps become fertile recruiting grounds for violent extremists.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there are no consequences now for breaking the prohibition on chemical weapons, it will be harder to muster an international consensus to ensure that Hezbollah and other terrorist groups are prevented from acquiring or using these weapons themselves.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in my confirmation process, on the right and the left, really loved that idea of having someone who's going to be in meetings arguing on behalf of the dignity of people who sometimes aren't represented in meetings. But by the same token, they have somewhat unrealistic expectations that I can kind of make my own policy.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every time I read the paper in the morning. It's surprising, actually.
- Flaws
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectively with modern threats is not easy. Indeed, when the United Nations was created in the wake of World War II, threats came almost exclusively from one state carrying out acts of aggression against another.
- Effective
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- Nov 07, 2020
U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because it started as an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIL has long been subject to U.N. sanctions, and all countries have a legal obligation to freeze its assets and prohibit its business dealings. But countries around the world need to do more to make these sanctions work.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I knew that individuals had in history - and still could - make a difference, it seemed presumptuous - even pompous - to imagine that I could be part of it, that I could be one of them.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.N. brings everybody together. And without it, we can't deal with Ebola or terrorism or climate change. But it's 70 years old. It's tired. It's acquired a lot of bad habits. And often it feels like only new bad habits get added and old bad habits don't get taken away.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
We no longer live in an era in which foreign policymakers can claim to serve their nations' interests treating what happens to people in other countries as an afterthought... What happens to people in other countries matters. It matters to the welfare of our own nations and our own citizens.
- Core
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- Nov 07, 2020
All advocacy is, at its core, an exercise in empathy.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across administrations and generations.
- Derives
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on how people think about Muslims.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.'
- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the rare occasions when U.N. blue helmets have made the news in the past, it has unfortunately too often been in the context of situations where peacekeepers have failed to shield civilians, or even when the peacekeepers themselves have been involved in abuse.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.
- Historical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
- Meet
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- Nov 07, 2020
America needs a sensible, sustainable Iran policy that can meet U.S. security and economic interests, command international support and withstand the shifting Middle Eastern sands.
- Means
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- Nov 07, 2020
Engaging Iran won't guarantee improved U.S.-Iranian relations or a more stable Gulf region. But not engaging means more of the same.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.
- Dealers
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- Nov 07, 2020
The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.
- Confronting
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- Nov 07, 2020
When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.
- Explicitly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you get an outcome you don't like. Look at Latin America in the Cold War.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
- Genocide
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
- Key
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- Nov 07, 2020
The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
- Catalyst
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020