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"Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest."
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"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."

"We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way."
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"Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces."

"No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane."

"Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people."

"National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government."

"George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go."

"We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion."
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