"Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war."

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"Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war."

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"The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics."

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"I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should."

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"The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe."

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"While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with."

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"Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously."

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"Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities."

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