Wikileaks didn’t help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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I’m just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it’s very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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There is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.
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Our response has been, “Well, let’s then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.” That hasn’t happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.
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The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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Whenever you have a crisis, you’re always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future.
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I don’t think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Is Israel going to continue to be ‘Fortress Israel’? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
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Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings,
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Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
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