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Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy. ”
It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases. ”
The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology. ”
I want to stop directing so many of resources to the military budget and focus them here at home. I believe government should invest in public infrastructure. ”
In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control. ”
That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now. ”
I like generals. I like Napoleon. I like strategy. The majority of them are praised for mass destruction, but it's exciting to see how it comes to the mind mentally. ”
It was Jacques Chirac and Schroeder both, who pushed us into a conflict to remove Milosevic. ”
Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn. ”
I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military that goes off and kills terrorists and whatnot. A cleaner environment without forcing SUVs off the road. ”