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"It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century."
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"I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there."

"The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that."

"A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things."

"Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!"

"A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer."

"I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight."

"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."

"I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color."
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"You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government."

"Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular."

"Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response."

"It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets."

"Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient."

"The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness."

"We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises."

"The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history."

"Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us."
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